Marauder's houses, was: Re: Sirius Black and Lexicon Contmaination
KathyK
zanelupin at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 9 20:22:28 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 84446
Cheekyweebisom:
>DEFINITELY not. Definitely. We know James was in Gryffindor. My
friend's run off with my books, so I can't give you a quote, but he
is in Gryffindor.<
As far as I can recall, there are two references folks use to place
James in Gryffindor. And I'm too darn lazy and tired to go look
them up for exact quotes, but:
1. Someone asked JKR what position James played on the Gryffindor
Quidditch team. She replied that he was a chaser.
This implied he was in Gryffindor because she didn't refute the
assertion that he was in that house. However, she didn't actually
say he was.
2. In OoP, Harry looks at Ron and it reminds him of another messy
haired Gryffindor who once sat under the same tree, or something to
that effect.
This also implies James is a Gryffindor since Harry's thinking of
James, but did Harry just assume his father was in Gryffindor?
There's no way of telling from school uniforms as they're written
into canon to which house a student belongs. For all we know, Harry
is assuming, as many of us do, his father would be a Gryffindor.
Both instances can be cited as evidence for a James in Gryffindor
scenario, but neither are definitive. People can argue to what
degree these two examples prove James' affiliation with Gryffindor,
but no one can say we *know* what house he was in.
KathyK
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