Fw: [HPforGrownups] Sirius's house (was Re: More emotional baggage for Snape)

[tmarends]

No: HPFGUIDX 41698


> SK writes:
> 
> > > Jo responds to a question that James was a Chaser.  The 
questioner
> > assumed
> > > he played on the Gryffindor team, but Jo didn't confirm or 
correct
> > that
> > > assumption.  So she only half answers the question, leaving us 
to
> > wonder
> > > whether she was being efficient or just coy.
> > >
> 
> Then Darrin responds:
> 
> > Again, I say that the answer is much less ambigious than people
> > looking for clues while waiting for OoP to come out want to make 
it.
> > The analogy I continually use is if someone who had never seen
> > basketball asks: "What position did Michael Jordan play for the
> > Bulls?"
> >
> > The answer is "shooting guard."

Richelle responds:
> 
> True.  But Michael Jordan didn't always play for the Bulls.  And he 
doesn't 
> now.  Perhaps James Potter didn't always play for Gryffindor.  He 
could've 
> played Seeker for Slytherin.  The only substantial evidence for him 
playing 
> Seeker is from the movie, not book, and the only thing about Chaser 
is from JKR 
> interview.  It's possible that he played for both teams if he was 
resorted, 
> perhaps different positions on each.
> 
I'm sorry, but I think that's stretching it a bit further than is 
possible.  McG says in SS/PS that they're sorted into houses which 
will be like their family while they are there.  I see no evidence 
that anyone has switched houses.  I'm not saying it isn't possible, 
but why go through the effort of having the Sorting Hat look into 
their minds to find out which house they are best suited for to have 
them switch somewhere in the middle of the seven years?  That just 
doesn't make sense.  James Potter was in Gryffindor... and until JKR 
says something entirely different in either an interview or in the 
coming books (should they ever arrive) so was Sirius, Lupin, and 
Pettigrew.

Tim A.