The House of Marauder

[Susan Atherton]

No: HPFGUIDX 60460

Although it's somewhat taken as a given that James was in Gryffindor, we don't know for sure, nor do we know where Sirius, Remus and Peter were.

Well, I've just been re-reading CoS in preparation for this weekend (eeeee!! less than a week!!) and I've just found something interesting on p165 (UK p/b), The Polyjuice Potion. 
Here's the passage.

"Malfoy paused by a stretch of bare, damp stone wall.
'What's the new password again?' he said to Harry.
'Er-' said Harry.
'Oh yeah - pure-blood!' said Malfoy, not listening, and a stone door concealed in the wall slid open. Malfoy marched through it and Harry and Ron followed him."

Directly preceding this was a load of bumf about Harry and Ron not being able to find the Slytherin Dungeons. This would lead me to believe that each student only knows the location of his own house's common room and dormitory, something that has been alluded to before. They certainly seem pretty well hidden - after all, there's a ton of portraits around Hogwarts, so why would the Fat Lady be significant? So, following this reasoning, wouldn't Sirius *have* to be in Gryffindor since he knew how to get into Gryffindor Tower? He *knew* he had to get through the Fat Lady. He *knew* she would be the one to let him in. This would imply he'd been used to her at school (a la Molly's reminiscences over the Fat Lady telling her off when she'd been out late one night).

The possible hole in my theory is that prefects might know where each common room is in case of emergency, and James was certainly a prefect, and Sirius might've been. However, Percy does ask "Crabbe" and "Goyle" what they're doing down here (the dungeon corridor), so one could present reasonable doubt that he doesn't know where the Slytherin common room is.

Any opinions?


Susan
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