An introduction, Sirius Black, the four houses

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Felinia:
Why was he laughing?  Hysteria.  Irony.  There are a lot of people 
who respond in emotionally inappropriate ways to strong or unfamiliar 
emotions because of strange things that have happened to them growing 
up, or social conditioning - the few guys who always laugh when an 
airplane does something odd like blowing a tire on landing or hitting 
a severe air pocket in flight, the people who get mad in the face of 
strong grief - and probably Sirius is just one of those.  


Me:

I tend to agree here. I don't believe it was mentioned about the 
*type* of laughter it was. Bitter laughter is what I thought it was 
which ties in with the irony card. I also think seeing your friends 
of yours which are like family to you killed and feeling the whole 
plan to keep that from happening has gone down the toilet at 
lightning speed would tend to drive you a bit insane. I think Sirius 
related the Potters and his crew to being a family of sorts. When I 
first read PoA, I did get the picture painted in my head that Sirius 
was laughing like a loon. Ok. I don't remember exactly *who* came up 
with the idea to switch Sk's at the last minute. I also don't 
remember if it was mentioned about anyone putting in their 2 cents 
about it being a bad idea. (If someone could refresh my memory that'd 
be great). I know someone had to have stepped in and said Pettigrew 
wouldn't have been a good choice! I don't believe Lupin & the rest 
stood by and let the (lol sorry about this) nimrod of the group 
handle such a heavy load? I know personally, in our group of close 
friends that are family there is one person in particular (I'm sure 
theres one in every group of friends) that you wouldn't want them to 
take on a big job because either you don't trust them to do it right, 
theyre not competent enough, or a slew of other reasons. I get the 
impression Pettigrew would fall into this category. You'd almost get 
a guarenteed botched job, which is obviously what happened.

Melanie (I believe it was)
>I am wondering what you guys think the reason the house is devided 
into >four distinct places, each with defining characteristics and 
traits *mind you that most of the characters can be easily divided 
into more than one house* I am inclined to think that in the end the 
most important clue to what is going to happen in the books is the 
four houses.  I believe that 
>the houses will each have to come together to defeat Voldemort once 
and for all.  However, obviously I am open to people who disagree 
with me.  What do you guys all think?

I believe they did the houses like this because of the traits the 
original 4 had. I believe R. Ravenclaw was quite brainy, G. 
Gryffindor was a very very brave person and so on & so forth. I can't 
think of any other explanation? As far as dividing the houses and 
having some students who could be placed in multiple houses, do you 
think it could have to do w/ the way they do the classes? There are 
usually 2 houses per class (at least from what I've seen). Maybe the 
classes go at slightly different speeds/levels and they've grouped 
the houses together who are at the same speed regarding a specific 
class? I know that is probably a big shot in the dark that makes no 
sense, but at this point, anything is possible.

Sen