House assumptions

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 45250

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Sherry Garfio <sgarfio at y...> wrote:
> Perhaps the Marauders had a higher
> purpose in mind, such as uniting the four Houses, or forming a 
group that would
> benefit from the strengths of each House's iconic virtue.  A group 
with talents
> that include intelligence, bravery, loyalty, and ambition would 
undoubtedly
> achieve more than a group that only exhibits one of these 
features.  This would
> make it necessary to recruit a member from *each* house, perhaps 
even with the
> goal of defeating Voldemort, since his Reign of Terror had 
presumably begun
> while the Marauders were still in school. 

It's a nice idea, but I don't think it would really work given the 
age of everyone involved.  The Marauders must've become friends 
early in their school days -- Lupin says that they achieved the 
Animagus transformation in their fifth year, after three years of 
trying, so their friendship really couldn't have formed later than 
their second year -- and I really can't imagine a group of eleven or 
twelve-year-old boys forming a tight circle of friendship for 
reasons of political idealism.  (Actually, I have trouble imagining 
a group of adults doing it, too, but with adults I'd say it's at 
least theoretically possible.)  Childhood friendship is a more 
organic process that that.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com