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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