OOP Questions and Inconsistensies

[Wendy St John]

No: HPFGUIDX 62228

Arya Precantri wrote:
>4. Snape's pensieve:
>Why were Lily and James calling each other "Potter" and "Evans"? I thought
>we had from a chat/interview with JKR that they were both in Gryffindor--
>calling each other by last names does not seem to be something one would
>do to housemates. In fact you rarely see it across any other houses but
>Slytherin and Gryffindor. So......what house was Lily in???

Star Opal responded:

"Well even if they were in house together (which I think they were) I can 
understand why Lily would call James "Potter" if she really thought he was 
such a git. But I dunno about why James would call her Evans."
 
Now me (Wendy):
 
Well, we can surmise that James already had a "thing" for Lily (based on
the doodled L.E. on his paper), so I'm guessing that he calls her Evans as
a way of covering up his feelings for her - acting like he really doesn't
like her so she won't guess his true feelings. Sounds sort of stupid, but
normal teenage behavior, no?

:-)
 
Wendy St John
hebrideanblack at earthlink.net