[HPforGrownups] Re-reading

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 76566

Geoff:
> But not everybody is named. Surely Crabbe and Goyle are in the same
> year as Malfoy but are not named at that point in the book.

Indeed so. And having got from there to here we can fill in a lot more names
besides. But I was casting back to the perspective of the very first book
(which does a remarkable amount of scene-setting, description, and so on)
and still feel that the _impression we are meant to come away with_ is that
the houses shake down roughly equally.

Now I certainly wouldn't want to argue that that is definite proof one way
or the other. But my reading of it is that it is "essential background"
rather than something that we are meant to look behind and see something
quite different.

You may think otherwise, of course :-)

Cheers

Ffred

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