OOP: MWPP WERE ALL GRYFFINDORS! (was MWPP and their houses) -small spoilers.

[bowlwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 65269

 
Kirstini wrote:
 
> >  1.) JKR confirmed that James was a Chaser on the Gryf Quidditch
> > team.

corinthum replied:

> Actually, she confirmed he was a Chaser.  Her reply didn't include 
the
> words "on the Gryffindor team".  I know many people interpret her 
lack
> of contradiction as affirmation, but I think it's still open for
> argument.

Now me (bowlwoman)

I found a passage that is more proof of James being in Gryffindor, 
but it's still circumstantial I'm afraid (I posted this originally on 
Tuesday in message #63057):

(US Hardback, Chapter 31 "O.W.L.S", page 704):

[Ron is discussing his saves during the last Quidditch match which 
won Gryffindor the cup.]

>>> "And then, when Chambers came at me about five minutes later -- 
what?" Ron said, stopping in mid-sentence at the look on Harry's 
face. "Why are you grinning?"

"I'm not," said Harry quickly, looking down at his Transfiguration 
notes and attempting to straighten his face. The truth was that Ron 
had just reminded Harry forcibly of another Gryffindor Quidditch 
player who had once sat rumpling his hair under this very tree. <<<

They are sitting under the very same beech tree that MWPP were 
sitting under during Snape's Pensieve memory. 

The clencher to me is the use of the word "forcibly". Harry has 
already admitted that Snape's memory not a happy memory and that it 
causes Harry anguish to view his father that way, but this shows that 
Harry is also seeing beyond his own personal issues with it and can 
appreciate the similarities of the situations.


Kirstini then wrote:

> > 2.)Lupin was made "the prefect" in an effort to influence the 
others 
> > for the better. Only one fifth year boy is made prefect from each 
> > house, and the way this passage was worded (my boyfriend has a 
very 
> > tight grip on my copy at the moment, so I can't quote) made me 
> > assume that only one of MWPP could have been made "the" prefect .

corinthum replied thus:

> Well, assuming Dumbledore really did want Lupin to discipline James
> and Sirius, making them all prefects (from different houses) 
wouldn't
> have achieved much. 

to which bowlwoman concurred:

I agree, corinthum, and Lupin wouldn't necessarily have to be a 
prefect in James' and Sirius' own house to have influence over them.  
Look at Ron's and Draco's comments on the ride to school on the HE.  
They both want to discipline students in other houses (namely the 
people they can't stand, i.e. Crabbe, Goyle and Harry, but it could 
still happen).


bowlwoman