[HPforGrownups] First meetings HP/DM, JP/SS was Re: Always bothered me

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 71398


 
<from Atropos G.> 
BUZZ! That is the wrong answer. We have been repeatedly told by 
JKR, the ultimate canon maker, that James was a Gryffindor, and he 
was Chaser on their Quidditch team. JKR has said this in several 
interviews., one of which, was when she also said Lily was a 
Gryffindor (naturally).
 

Me -

No we haven't she was asked what position James played on the Gryffindor
team and she said Chaser. She neither confirmed nor denied that he was in
Gryffindor and has *never* given the house of any of the Marauders.

<from Atropos G.> 
We also could take a little leap and accept that Hagrid knows about 
Riddle being Voldemort and knows Lily and James fairly well, becasue 
Hagrid was in Gryffindor, too. Plus, Hagrid is "tight" with 
Dumbledore.

Me -

We have no idea whether Hagrid knew that Riddle was Voldemort but it does
seem to be a very closely guarded secret. Plus Hagrid was expelled over
thirty years before James and Lily went to gryffindor so that the fact that
he was in the same house doesn't suggest at all that he knew them at all.
Certainly James at 15 seems like an arrogant git and not the sort of person
who would spend time with the somewhat childlike groundskeeper.

K