Which house did Moaning Myrtle belong to?

[erinellii]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, newyorkcutie200 at a... wrote:
I have read in a past post that JK Rowling was trying to hide 
something in the COS that would have gave away too much for future 
books. Could Moaning 
> Myrtle's house be important for books 6 and 7? Does anyone have any 
theories? Or is this just a stupid idea?
>  "newyorkcutie"

Erin:
I like to believe she was a Slytherin.
This makes sense to me for two reasons.  I know a lot of people think 
of her as Hufflepuff from her appearence, and the fact that she was 
picked on, but I think that her behavior after death negates that.  
Namely, the way she haunted Olive Hornsby, the girl who had teased 
her while she was alive.  The absolute pleasure she takes in telling 
Harry of her revenge definitely points towards her being placed in 
Slytherin IMO.

The second reason that if she were a Slytherin, she could be THE good 
Slytherin that many people on this list believe in.  

We know (from a couple things JKR has said) that ghosts will figure 
in book seven.  I think Myrtle will be the main ghost character when 
we get there.  Lots of reasons for that.  She's really quite 
different from the other ghosts we've met in many ways.  She's 
younger, for instance.  Both in years since she died, and her actual 
age at time of death.  She's a kid, like the trio and friends, and so 
she really fits better into their world than any of the adult ghosts 
do.  

She seems to have the ability to affect/move objects, or at least 
water. 
I've seen posters write that perhaps this is something only ghosts 
who have died recently, or less than a hundred years ago, can do, 
because of Nearly Headless Nick's statement in SS/PS that he hasn't 
eaten in 400 years.  We discover in CoS that Nick has actually been 
Dead for 500 years.  Is this a Flint?  Or could he actually eat those 
first hundred years?  Can Myrtle eat now?

The other ghosts seem to have made peace with their existence, while 
Myrtle is very unhappy about being dead.  I think that if there is 
going to be a ghost who gets to "move on" to the next plane of 
existence, it will be Myrtle.

Also, it seems suspicious to me that so many of the people who are 
now at Hogwarts, namely Dumbledore, McGonagall, Hagrid, and Myrtle, 
were all there when Tom Riddle was.  I also think it very possible 
that Myrtle had a crush on Riddle while she was alive, mostly because 
she has one on Harry now and he and Riddle look alike.

So, basically, I think that your idea is not stupid at all, as I 
firmly believe Moaning Myrtle will be very inportant in the last two 
books.

Erin