James' "House", Quidditch player (Was "First meetings HP/DM, JP/SS")

[linlou43]

No: HPFGUIDX 71483


> <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, 
> because Hagrid was in Gryffindor, too. Plus, Hagrid is "tight" 
with 
> > Dumbledore.

 
> > Kathryn -

> > 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. <<<<<


 Me:
  
   I always thought Hagrid had good authority to make both 
determinations. There was no reason for Hagrid not to know that 
Riddle and Voldemort were one and the same. I'm sure AD would have 
told him. Especially since it seemed that he was working for the 
order the first time around. Hagrid might have even had some insight 
into his former classmate. James played quidditch for his house and 
then shortly after finishing school(even if it was a few years), 
joined the order. It wasn't so long a time span that Hagrid wouldn't 
have thought to himself, "Gee, that's the kid who played chaser for 
(insert house name)". After James and Lily were killed I'm sure it 
was cemented in his mind the way one tends to remember things about 
people who are gone so clearly.

   MHO-linlou