OOP: James' House - DEFINITIVE!

[andromeda7_4]

No: HPFGUIDX 67416

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, lima <alima at t...> wrote:
> on 7/4/03 3:43 AM, Alon van Dam at alanphoenix1 at h... wrote:
> 
> [The best spoiler-free line IN THE WORLD!]
> Dear all,
> 
> I'm not sure if anyone's already mentioned this in my absence
> (they're bound to have) but when I was last actually reading posts
> every free minute, there was still an active debate about the houses
> of MWPP and whether or not Snape's worst memory proved that James
> couldn't be a Gryffindor.
> 
> When rereading a few days back, I came to a definite answer to the
> housing-question: James was in Gryffindor. Positive. Sure. My proof
> is very simple, yet I managed to completely read over it the first
> time round:
> 
> It appears in the beginning of the chapter following Grawp (I forget
> the name), HRH are sitting outside on the grounds, and Ron is 
telling
> them about the match they missed the previous day. Ron ruffles up 
his
> hair to make the match seem more 'exciting' and Harry grins because
> Ron "reminded him of another Gryffindor Quidditch player who ruffled
> up his hair under that very tree". If that's not proof, I don't know
> what is.
> 
> *wonders if anyone's going to refute this?*
> 
> My two knuts worth,
> Alon
> 
> 


That passage only indicates that Harry BELIEVED that James was a 
Gryffindor, not that he actually was.

Harry also believed James was a very good, heroic man-  then learned 
that he was really (at least at one point in his life) an arrogant 
school bully.


Andromeda