[HPforGrownups] Lily and james house, and the word mudblood

[NGUYEN-HOANG Anne]

No: HPFGUIDX 41749

Hi  everyone !

It's my first post here, and actually I'm working (or pretending to) so
I don't have access to my books (English paperback) to support my
thoughts ^__^


About Lily and James's house, I think they're both Gryffindor, but there's
nothing that really proves it. And I'm seriously doubting that during
the same year (Lily and James' last year), the whole staff would let
Gryffindor take every important position. Dumbledore was a Gryffindor
headmaster, and with the head boy as James and the head girl as Lily, who were both Gryffindors too.... Is there a rule about not letting both head girl and
head boy be from the same house? 

So if Lily was a Gryffindor, and James a Slytherin, it could explain why
they can both be head students. Snape could hate James, because he was a
Slytherin who was friends with a Gryffindor.

But it's also possible that Lily was not as old as James (and therefore not
included in the Marauders' gang)... And so they could both be head students at Gryffindor but not the same year.  

Since James seems to come from an old and rich wizard family, maybe he
was a Death Eater too... That's why we never read about his last fight against
Voldemort. Even if the film is absolutly not canon, the fact that they
didn't shoot James' death is somehow at least suspect.
 
I always feel uncomfortable with the fact that most of the people take
for granted that Gryffindors were the nice guys and that all Death Eaters
were (are) Slytherins. 

A point about the word "mudblood"... Is there a polite equivalent to
that word? I mean, "nigger" is not a really polite word, and you can't
use it to say "my friend is a nigger, we're going to Africa next week in
order to visit his other friends-niggers."

And what about Voldemort's priority? Is it better to be a "mudblood" or
to be "muggle"? How many generations do you have to have behind you to be
called a "pure" wizard? 

And J.K. Rowlings seems to describe wizards as totally ignorant about
the muggles' rules... Even Ron, who grow up inside a muggle-lover
family, is surprised and puzzled to see frozen pictures. So how can 
wizards or witches marry muggles and hide their identities during a long
period (cf. Seamus' family or Riddle's)?

Annechan, who would appreciate once seeing Dumbledore deal with his spoiled
Griffindor properly.