houses/ snape's worst memory

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 76600

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "abhamghp" <galadriel1 at m...> 
wrote:
> Forgive me if this has already been discussed; I try to stay up 
with 
> postings, but sometimes it's hard.  Anyway,the further I get into 
> the series, I become more and more intrigued about Lily and James 
> and occurrences before Harry was even around.  I'm listening to the 
> cassette version of OotP, (the first time around, I read the book) 
> and am noticing some subtleties and some items to think about.  One 
> of those continues to be what houses MMWP and Lily were in when 
they 
> were in school.  I'm almost convinced that the foursome were all in 
> Slytherin, with Snape, and were all five in the same year.  My 
> reasons are:  there seems to be a parallel drawn with MMWP and 
Snape 
> and the five boys in Harry's dorm.  Dean and SEamus are quite 
> chummy, and obviously, Harry and Ron are.  This leaves Neville the 
> odd man out, at least in the first four books.  MMWP were all 
> friends, Snape being the odd one out.  Also, Sirius' lineage lends 
> to him being in Slytherin.  Wormtail, while maybe not incredibly 
> cunning, has the tendency to save his own hide, a Slytherin 
> attribute mentioned by Phineus Nigellus to Harry.  James, although 
> he probably matured past his wretched behavior in his fifth year, 
is 
> an arrogant somebody (almost reminds me of Draco).  The only one I 
> can't really place in Slytherin definitely is Lupin.
> 
> Anyway, that's my theory and my reasons behind it.  I know that 
> Harry says Ron reminds him of another Gryffindor Quidditch Player, 
> but could Harry just be assuming that James was in Gryffindor?  THe 
> sorting hat considered putting Harry in Slytherin.  Could that be 
> because he possesses many of his father's characteristics?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks,
> abhamghp

Me:
I have often thought the same thing. Sirius and James seem like 
Slytherins to me but the Lexicon states that James was in Gryfindor. 
They state that the information came from Rowling herself in an 
interview with Scholastic October 16th 2002. 

Rowling was asked: What position did James play on the Gryffindor 
Quidditch team? Was he seeker like Harry, or something different? 
Her answer:  James was Chaser. 

Now call me a skeptic, but she doesn't actually say he was in 
Gryfindor, just that he was a Chaser. But logically one would deduce 
from her answer that she agreed with the first part and corrected the 
interviewer on the second part.  So I reluctantly concede that James 
was in Gryiffindor along with Lupin.
Mandy