How did Sirius know??

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 57471

>   Well, one more question about Sirius. How did he know Ron was a 
>Gryffindor?? The night he entered the castle he went straight away to the 
>Gryffindor Rooms, but how could he know that Ron, and therefore Pettigrew, 
>were in gryffindor house?. In the daily prophet article about the weasleys, 
>the one Sirius read and gave him the clue about Pettigrew, it wasn't 
>mentioned they were all gryffindors, only that 5 of the children attended 
>the school.
>

He didn't *know,* but it was a good guess, because he *did* know that James 
was in Gryffindor. We  know that families tend to favor one house (cf. 
Lucius and Draco), and that the houses select for characteristics which 
James could suppose had been passed down from father to son.  Besides, it 
was the only house whose location and layout he knew for sure (assuming he 
was in Gryffindor himself, which I believe although I don't remember any 
canon on the subject), and so a good place to start.

If he hadn't found Ron there, he would probably have tried other places, 
which would have been more difficult.


Janet Anderson


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