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Kneasy wrote: 
A more interesting question is, has it been tried before? In the
previous generation that grew up during the first rise of Voldemort?
A reading of the characters and their attitudes might give us:
James - Gryffindor. Up for anything; rash; needed reining in.
Sirius - Slytherin. Brought up as a Black. Say no more.
Remus - Ravenclaw. Clever enough to become Professor Lupin.
Peter - Hufflepuff. The slow one. Always lagging behind the others.
Is history in the process of repeating itself?
Is this a portend of things to come?


Mandy here:
Hummm.  So are you suggesting that DD was attempting to create a 
weapon of sorts that would say, draw on the power of Hogwarts, using 
James, Sirius, Remus and Peter, each child from a different houses 
working together against LV?  If so, did DD plan on them becoming 
such good friends?  Could DD have arranged that?  Is he really such 
puppet master in total control of every child in that school? 

Secondly, if what your saying is true and it obviously failed, 
possibly because once the four friends were out of the control of DD 
they all imploded, is DD now attempting the same plan, creating a 
weapon but from a different perspective, by putting four friends, 
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville with different personalities in the 
same house?  Does DD believe he can control their destinies once 
leaving school any better this second go around?  Then again he 
doesn't have to if Harry is forced into dealing with LV while they 
are still at school.

I like your idea but I can't quite figure it out.  Perhaps I ought by 
your reckoning belong in Redial Hufflepuff. ;-)

Which brings me to my second point




Kneasy wrote:
Hufflepuffs - loyal and apparently not too bright; could even be the
remedial class

Mandy here:
Poor Hufflepuff!  In the defense of the house no one wants to belong 
to, it is most certainly not the remedial dumping ground of Hogwarts! 

Each house would have it's own remedial classes. Probably one-on-one, 
like Snape suggested Harry was doing when Draco interrupted their 
Occulmency lesson.  

Also the requirements of Gryffindor and Slytherin don't specify 
intelligence.  Ron, Neville, Crabbe and Goyle are a perfect example 
of this. 

Hufflepuff is the house the majority of the world would belong to.  
Happily and unhappily following along, doing what is required of us, 
moaning about our lot in life but too afraid to actually change the 
world around us to make it any better.  

Mandy, who, ofcourse, wouldn't be in Hufflepuff you understand. I'd 
be in Slytherin or Gryffindor.  ;-)