OOP: MWPP and their houses/Tonks' purpose

[michelle.pagan at colorado.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 64772


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I've only read OoP once by this point and haven't touched it since Sunday 
since I loaned the book to my roommate to read (big mistake!).  But I was 
thinking about a couple of things and wanted to put them forth. I apologize in 
advance if these have already been discussed, but though I've desperately 
tried I CANNOT keep up with all the posts there have been! 

Though the possibility that the Marauders were in different houses have come 
up many many times, I wonder if OoP gives us some evidence that this is 
perhaps true, at least in regards to Sirius.  I base this on the fact (OoP, US 
Ed. p. 67) of all the snakes in various household items in the Black house. 
Could this be a clue that the Blacks in general, much like the Weasleys, and 
Creeveys, etc. belonging to one house, all belonged to Slytherin? I know we 
can't definitely tell this, since in GoF I believe Hermione tells us that the 
Patil sisters are in different houses.  But even though there's no evidence to 
prove it, I could see Lupin being in Ravenclaw.  I definitely can't remember, 
but somehow I have the feeling that there's cannon saying Pettigrew was in 
Gryffindor though, which shoots my theory to hell.  Even if the only cannon is 
that Peter and James had class together, though, it could still work, since 
we've seen two houses have class together before.  

Another comment I have, is that I hope Nymphadora Tonks' whole purpose wasn't 
only to inform us that metamorphaguses exist in the Wizarding World.  I LOVED 
OoP but that was one of the things I was disappointed in.  It seems like the 
easy way out, and if some bad guy in Book 6 or 7 turns out to be a 
metamorphagus (or whatever the word was)  and all the time looked like a good 
guy, I will be upset.  Even if it worked the other way, and Dumbledore or 
James was one and was just looking like someone else this entire time I'll be 
pissed! :)  But otherwise, I couldn't really understand why JKR included 
that....


-Polaris