[HPforGrownups] Re: The Houses Mystery

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 44573

> > 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.
>
You know...I don't know if this has come up before, but i get the 
impression, from the fact that Harry and Ron can't just ask someone in 
advance, that people from the other houses aren't *supposed* to know the 
location of common rooms not their own.

There's never any taking messages back and forth between them, and no 
"calling on people in other houses".  It's as if different houses are 
supposed to meet only during regular school hours and in public areas.

I kind of get the impression that they're not supposed to - otherwise I 
would think that the location of the other common rooms would be something 
mentioned in orientation.  perhaps that knowledge is restricted to prefects.

Felinia

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