Mrs. Figg, Petunia, Dumbledore, Houses

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 73879

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:

> I think it is now pretty much confirmed, that at least James, Remus 
> and Sirius were all in the same house. In the chapter in OOTP were 
> Hermione and Ron were made prefects, Sirius said that he and James 
> were to much of troublemakers and that Remus was the good boy and 
> therefore made prefect. IMO, this sounded pretty much like an 
> either or decision, meaning that either James or Remus or Sirius 
> could have been a prefect. Therefore they all had to be in the same 
> house. And I personally think it would be very surprising, if Peter 
> was in another house. I think it highly unlikely that he would 
> follow them everytime and everywhere, if he would live in a totally 
> different room.
> Hickengruendler

As much as I love the 4 Marauders-4 Houses theory (it fits so 
well !!), I must support you on that one. As I said a long long time 
ago, I just can't see how the Marauders could have been such close 
friends if they had been in different Houses. There are very few 
inter-Houses relationships described in the books, and most of them 
are romantic relationships (and we all know how far lovers can go to 
see each other :-). The kids in different Houses live in different 
parts of the castle, eat at different tables, rarely go to classes 
together, etc... The only time left when they can actually get to 
know each other are the various clubs, but there doesn't seem to be 
that many people engaged in them, and we don't even know how many of 
those clubs are inter-House. Remember, when the DA try setting up a 
date for their meetings, their different timetables quickly clash. 
Sounds like it would be very hard to establish a regular inter-House 
club. And then Hermione has to resort to the magical Galleon trick in 
order to avoid students from different Houses being seen talking to 
each other too often, because it would look suspicious : really 
doesn't sound like inter-House friendships are common !

Del