The Houses Mystery

[Tim]

No: HPFGUIDX 44482

> Crysti wrote:
>I was also pulling in the idea that JKR has never said what house 
>James is in (not in the books or in interviews) and this is one of 
>the things that got me suspicious.  JKR does seem the type who could 
>pull such a turn as putting James and the others into Slytherin, but 
>also who just might not.  She's always trying to do the thing that 
>will surprise us most, and I'm not sure which would surprise me more 
>right now.  Well, I don't think she'll give us any hints, so we'll 
>just have to wait and see.  Either way, there's no way I'll be 
>disappointed. <<


I have two things to point out here... 

1)  In CoS, Harry and Ron have no idea where the Slytherin common 
room is.  After a year you'd think they knew the general location of 
the other three houses... but this is not the case.

2) In PoA, Sirius has no problem finding the Gryffindor Tower... 
twice.  If he had been trying to figure it out, even as Snuffles, 
then someone would have noticed a big black dog roaming Hogwarts.

This brings me to the conclusion that Sirius Black was a Gryffindor.  
And if he was a Gryff, then so was James, Remus, and Peter.  The 
notion that the four of them were in different houses, although 
interesting, is a bit far fetched.  The hours they had to spend 
together just learning to transform into animals makes that 
(different houses theory) nearly impossible.

Just my two cents worth.

Tim A.