What house was Peter Pettigrew in?

[shadowgirl_900]

No: HPFGUIDX 40841

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Kristin Cusack <msiscusack at y...> wrote:
> I think I made a mistake in my last post in that it
> was Ron and not Hagrid woh made the comment about bad
> wizards and Slytherin. 
> While I do realize that the arguments for James et al
> being in Gryffindor are very strong the comment raises
> questions. Everyone "knew" that Sirius Black had gone
> just about as bad as possible, including Ron. So why
> would he make that comment unless he had been a Slytherin?


    Okay, we are getting a little confused in our logic here. If A =
B, then A must be the same thing as B. So if one line of thought is
proven to be one thing and is linked to another, then thought B must
equal A.

   We have pretty much proven that all four boys must have been in the
same house. There really is no other way that they could have spent
the time together that it took for Peter to learn to become a rat.
They had to do that at night and it took forever. (This isn't even
adding in that in the climate of the school at the time, if you
weren't a Slytherin, you weren't making friends with one.)
  Now, we are faced with the question of which house it was. We know
it *wasn't* Slytherin. We know this because A) Remus was hoping
Gryffindor would win the quidditch game. Why would he do that unless
he was either an old Gryffindor, or trying to win Harry's trust for
some evil cause of his own. I'm voting for reason A. B) J.K. Rowling
answered to the "What possition did James play for Gryffindor?"
question. I'm agreeing that she knew what she was answering to. She's
a smart woman and I think if he wasn't in that house she might have
said so. C) Hagrid says, "Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin. There's
not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin."
Would he really have been saying such harsh things to Harry about the
house Harry's father came from? Harry was eventually going to find out
everything about his parents. Had James been a Slytherin, telling
Harry how evil Slytherin was would be a BAD idea. D) (And I'll admit
this is a weak one, but...) Dumbledore(Or was that Lupin? I can't
remember.) told Harry that his rivalry with Malfoy was just like
James' rivalry with Snape. Harry and Malfoy aren't in the same house
and I'm betting neither were James and Snape.

  Okay, having eleminated Slytherin, doesn't it make the whole
argument rather empty? I was all based on the "Better Hufflepuff than
Slytherin. There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who
wasn't in Slytherin." line. And we *know* the marauders weren't in
Slytherin, so Hagrid must have been exagerating.
  But for fun, I rather think it was Gryffindor the boys went to. Why
else would Remus have been cheering for them at the quidditch game?

  Anywho, just my thoughts. :)

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