OOP: MWPP and their houses/Tonks' purpose

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 64832

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "outahand6789" 
<si1verwolf at h...> wrote:
> Although I always imagined them all in Gryffindor, if forced to 
> divide MWPP into different houses I'd say:
> James:  Gryffindor  
> Sirius:  Slytherin
> Remus:  Ravenclaw
> Peter:  Hufflepuff
> 
> This is where the sorting hat's new song (p.200-something in OP) 
> would shed some light.  They could have spent a significant amount 
of 
> time together regardless of being in different houses because they 
> don't seem like the type to stay in their respective commonrooms.
> 
> James was definitely a Gryffindor, I'm pretty sure that's been 
> written somewhere.  Remus shows great intellect, if not Gryffindor, 
> definitely Ravenclaw material.  Peter would have never been sorted 
> into Gryffindor because he's a coward (the sorting hat makes it 
clear 
> that only those with courage go Gryffindor and the hat would have 
> seen right through him) so if Sirius goes to Slythierin, then 
Peter's 
> stuck in Hufflepuff. ***does anyone else get the feeling that 
> Hufflepuff's full of rejects?***
> 
> Sirius is very interesting.  I agree with you that his family ties 
> may have landed him in Slytherin.  Perhaps it was the consequences 
of 
> joke he played on Snape (PoA p.357) that made Sirius and James 
mature 
> sometime after their fifth year.  Something pretty big must have 
> happened to make them change from being as arrogant as in Snape's 
> memory from OP.  This change may be what made Sirius leave his 
> house.  I hope we'll get more of that story in the 6th and 7th 
> books.  I really like Sirius, his death just felt so pointless it 
> still hurts.

Very, very interesting idea.  Were the houses of Hogwarts always so 
socially divided? Or are they really all that socially divided now? 
As we really only see things from what Harry sees and does, we don't 
know who is friends with whom.  But Ginny has a boyfriend who is in 
Ravenclaw.  Also, could Dumbledore have heeded the warnings of the 
Sorting Hat already, by putting Gyrffindor and Syltherin together in 
two classes hoping this would create friendships?  

I personally think the Sorting Hat warning is a bit of a prophecy for 
what is to come in the friendships of either 
Harry/Ron/Hermione/Neville/Ginny or Draco/Crabbe/Goyle/Pansy.  In the 
later, it may lead to Draco coming over to the good side.  It 
obviously can happen, looking at Siriu's past and family.

Tamara