Houses of Marauders (WAS: Re: Prejudices (was Malfoy's Choice of Date))

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 36465

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Aegeus86 at a... wrote:
 
> No where in canon are we told that Peter, Sirius, or even Lupin,
were in 
> Gryffindor.  Most people have just assumed that.  There is always
the 
> possibility that they were in different houses.
> 

It's true that the Marauders' house affiliation was never specifically
spelled out in canon. (I believe JKR said they were all Gryffindors in
an interview somewhere, but I don't know where, and in any case I hold
to the view that if it's not in the books it's not canon.)  However, I
think there's fair amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to them
all being in the same house.

In the course of four years, have we ever seen *any* student form a
close friendship outside of their house?  We've seen interhouse
romances (hormones being what they are), but no friendships.  The
school culture doesn't encourage it.  Students live with their
housemates, take all meals with their housemates, attend classes with
their housemates (and at most one other house).  They hang out in
their own common rooms, which are password-protected to keep other
houses from getting in.  There are no mixed-house athletic teams -- no
opportunity at all, really, for people to socialize outside of their
own house.

Given that, I think it would be near-impossible for the Marauders to
form the close bond that they obviously had unless they were all in
the same house. And if they *had* managed it, I think it would be a
highly unusual thing, something people would remember and talk about
even a generation later.  So if James was in Gryffindor, I'd say they
all were.

Marina
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