Lexicon Contmaination

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 84554

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermowninny719" 
<hermowninny719 at y...> wrote:
> Now me:
> 
> I don't think JKR ever said James was in Gryffindor in an 
interview.  
> The closest thing I can find is when she was asked "Whiat position 
> did James play on the Gryffindor Quidditch team?" She 
> responded, "James was a chaser."  That is neither confirmation or 
> denial of his house association.

True.  Now we have to ask ourselves would/should JKR have corrected 
the interviewer about James's house if the interview had said the 
wrong one.

Also, why did the interview think James was in Gryffindor?  Was this 
because of an answer to a previous question?

> I also don't think students wear any house-specific markings on 
their 
> uniforms.  I believe this is movie-contamination.  Is there canon 
to 
> support a different unform and/or badge, etc. for each house?
<snip>
> -Hermowninny

They don't wear house specific markings.  Remember in CoS when Harry 
and Ron disguised as Slytherins asked a girl where the Slytherin 
common room was and she said she was in Ravenclaw.  They never could 
have mistaken a student from one house for another if they wore 
markings.  They wouldn't have had to guess who was a Slytherin in the 
first place.  House markings would have solved that problem easily.

Also, it is not just the movie.  Various book covers and the video 
games also have house markings.  Some book covers had Harry wearing a 
red cape *shudder* and others had him wearing a red and yellow 
Gryffinor scarf.  The video games, had different color robes or 
colored piping around the edge of the robes as well.

Incidentally, this still isn't canon, but wouldn't Harry know what 
house his Dad was in.  In PS/SS McGonagall said Harry's dad was "an 
excellent Quidditch player".  This part is speculation, but I would 
imagine that Harry would have at some point gone in to the trophy 
room and seen his Dad's name on a trophy or two.

More speculation, what about the photo album Hagid gave Harry?.  The 
book doesn't describe all the photos in the album.  Since his parents 
died fairly young, some pictures could have been from their Hogwarts' 
days.  There could have been photos of James in the Gryffindor common 
room.  Also, if his Dad was in his quidditch robes, then his house 
will be obvious.  Sportting attire always marks the teams.  I'm sure 
their quidditch robes have the house colors and/or mascots.  

Although, it isn't canon and I realize we have to be wary of Harry's 
POV, I think JKR was telling us James's house in that statement.

Yolanda