Ravenclaw, etc. (was: Slytherin Amigos)

[Julie Stahlhut]

No: HPFGUIDX 43879

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "emma_look_alike" 
<Mysticwolf_girl at h...> wrote:
> Do Malfoy and the Slytherins have friends in other houses? 
Does ANY 
> in depth other-house relationships go on inside Hogwarts?....

As someone who would have most fervently begged the Sorting 
Hat to put me into Ravenclaw :-),  I'll go a step further and wonder 
why Ravenclaw has been the least developed house in the 
whole tale so far.  Much of the conflict, of course, has been 
Gryffindor v. Slytherin, but we've at least met a smattering of 
Hufflepuffs along the way; even before Cedric became central to 
the plot of GoF, the Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs seemed to share 
a lot of classes.   We don't see much of the Ravenclaws; some, 
like Penelope Clearwater, Cho Chang, and Roger Davies, get an 
occasional mention, but we really don't know anything about 
them, not even Cho, nor Parvati's sister Padma.

I'd also love to see a rogue Slytherin character with a conscience 
-- maybe a character who's ambitious and enough of a social 
climber to live there, but who isn't a complete snob, a bully, or 
otherwise an all-around creep.  

Wonder if either of these developments will happen along the 
way?

Julie
(Sometimes herself; sometimes starbug_56)