Muggle-borns in the future and some other responses

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 55941

Tom wrote:

> As for Pettigrew, it's my understanding that we have no canon to 
> indicate at all what houses Harry's parents or their friends were in. 
> We don't even know for sure that *James* was a Gryffindor, never mind 
> Pettigrew. Granted, Sirius seems to know where the Gryffindor Tower 
> entrance is in PoA, but technically, that doesn't mean anything. 
> After all, Harry and Ron now know where the Slytherin entrance is 
> thanks to their Polyjuice adventure in CoS. Those darn kids. ;-)
> 
> -Tom

There are really strong indications that James was a Gryffindor. JKR gave an 
interview where she was asked "What position did James play for Gryffindor?" 
and she said "Seeker."

Not 100 percent, but a very strong indicator. 

I also maintain that to do the running around together that the Mauraders 
were doing, spending off-time learning Animagus spells, building up the kind 
of trust it takes to get into trouble together, all four would have to have been 
from the same house, especially considering the level of mistrust that must 
have been going on between the houses during the 1970s, when V-mort was 
at his peak.

The passwords to the dormitories, the different class schedules, making it 
harder to use free time in class to plot, and the restrictions against wandering 
the halls all indicate that you'd have to be in the same house to do what the 
Mauraders did.

I further submit that they weren't in Slytherin, notwithstanding the 
generalization at the beginning of PS/SS where Hagrid says "There wasn't a 
witch or wizard who went bad that was not in Slytherin." Obviously, he "knew" 
that Sirius went bad, so does that put  Sirius in Slytherin?

I don't think so, not with the way Black refers to Slytherins in GoF. "Snape was 
part of a gang of Slytherins that all became Death Eaters." (In the UK version, 
it is "part of" not "ran with")

That does not indicate someone talking about his own house. The emnity 
between Snape and Sirius also indicates different houses.

I chalk up Hagrid's comment to just plain overexaggerating.

Then we have the connection from James to Harry being in the same house, 
Lupin rooting for a Gryffindor victory, and there is more circumstantial 
evidence.

100 percent that the Mauraders were Gryffindor? No, but I'd say the 
indications all point that direction, which is why I said, in the first place, strong 
indications Pettigrew was a Gryffindor.

One thing, I'm pretty damn sure he wasn't a Slytherin, because I doubt Black 
and the Potters would have trusted him as their secret keeper if that were true.

Darrin
-- Part of not ran with is NOT a good band name