House pride post-Hogwarts (was Re: MWPP WERE ALL GRYFFINDORS!)

[David]

No: HPFGUIDX 65175

Kirstini wrote:

> 6.)In PoA, Lupin says "Well, let's drink to a Gryffindor victory 
> against Ravenclaw! Not that I'm supposed to take sides, as a 
> teacher..." (PoA, Bloomsbury, p182). This suggests to me that were 
> Lupin not a teacher, he'd still be supporting Gryffindor - just to 
> support his friend James' son? Or because he was one himself? 
Former 
> Hogwartians are notoriously partisan.
> 
> There you go, my argument. Let the picking commence.

On the whole I think you are right about MWPP belonging to 
Gryffindor.

However, I'm not so sure about this last argument.  IMO, the adult 
characters who show strong house allegiance are those who have not 
experienced much of life away from the school.

Hagrid: expelled and then retained on the staff by Dumbledore

Sirius: spent most of his time in Azkaban

I think that Lupin's main motive in supporting Gryffindor is simply 
that winning at Quidditch is Harry's main reason for wanting the 
extra lessons he is having with Lupin.  It would undermine the 
lesson for Lupin to come over stuffily impartial at this point: he's 
saying 'let's drink to the success of what we have been doing', IMO.

Otherwise, there seems to be remarkably little reference to house 
allegiance in the adult world.  Only the Malfoys and Weasleys give 
any evidence, and what there is comes from the children.  While it's 
a fair bet that the blood-obsessed Malfoys would be ashamed if their 
child was sorted into Hufflepuff, we don't really know what Arthur 
and Molly would have thought had one of theirs been sorted into 
Slytherin.

David, noting this post contains no OOP spoilers