Mrs. Figg, Petunia, Dumbledore, Houses

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 73894

> > I believe it's in the 1st book where the kids run up to the 
> > Trophy Room and see that James was a Gryffindor quidditch player. 
> > Personally, I can't see him being anywhere else...<snip>
> 
> No, it doesn't.  Not at all.  In the first *movie* Harry sees his 
> father's name on a Gryffindor trophy.  I have never found this in 
> canon.
> 
> However, in Book V, Harry lets it slip that James was, in fact, a 
> Gryffindor.  "The truth was that Ron had just remined Harry 
> forcibly of another Gryffindor Quiddich player who had once sat 
> rumpling his hair uner this very tree."  This might have already 
> been discussed, so I will beg forgiveness.  I've discussed this 
> with others in a different forum, and realize that Harry might very 
> well be assuming (perhaps wrongly) that James was a Gryffindor, but 
> since this series is from Harry's point of view, it must be 
> important for him to assume this.
> 
> --Ashley--

Raaahhh ! This very point has always horribly frustrated me ! Does 
Harry *know* that his father was in Gryffindor, or does he just 
*assume* it ? Is it supposed to be another one of those big 
JKR "fooled you" tricks, or is it just that she forgot to mention it 
before ? If it is in the movie, it should be true, since we know that 
JKR examined everything shown in the movies closely... But still it 
is so strange that she never simply said : "Harry learned that his 
father was in Gryffindor this way". And I can't help thinking about 
what so many people said about Slytherin and Dark wizards, especially 
Hagrid, that most dark wizards came out of Slytherin : what about 
Sirius Black, then ? Argh, argh, argh !

Del