Which house did Moaning Myrtle belong to?

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 84563

>From message 84522 Erin said:
> <snip> This will be a way of reconciling the houses. So Snape isn't
> eligable. Plus he only became good after he got out of Slytherin.

I thought once you were sorted you were always a 
Gryffindor/Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff/Slytherin even after you'd left 
Hogwarts.  I'd simply assumed that you became an alumnus.
Snape may have left school, but he is still a Slytherin, in fact he 
is now head of that house.

>From message 84521:
> Sherrie, over in the corner, glancing up from Tennessee Williams:
> 
> The books don't really describe the uniforms, present or past, 
except that 
> they're "plain working robes".  We assume somehow that there's a 
House 
> distinction - badge or whatever - because Harry is able to identify 
students' House 
> afffiliation at a distance in the books.

Another explanaion would be that Harry simply knows what house they 
belong to.  For example, back in school I could identify what year 
you were in by what classrooms I saw you going into/out of even 
though I didn't know your name.
 
As we saw during the polyjuice incident, Ron and Harry couldn't tell 
who was a Slytherin and who wasn't.  The girl they asked for 
directions to the Slytherin common room was a Ravenclaw.  If the book 
uniforms, had any kind of house distinction, Ron and Harry wouldn't 
even have to guess who to ask.  They'd know who the Slytherins are by 
their uniforms.

Sherrie again:
> However, the House badge concept most of us have (and I'm as guilty 
as any!) 
> is movie contamination.
> 
> That said - the pin that YTR wears in the film isn't a House badge -
 it's his 
> Prefect badge.  It's green and silver because he's a Slytherin 
Prefect, but 
> not every Slytherin wears one.

Maybe they did.  Perhaps Prefects replaced their regular house pin 
with their Prefect badge.  We don't know that the other students 
didn't have pins.  Did we get a good look at Rubeus during the scene 
with him and riddle?  Did he have a pin?  I'm not near my DVDs right 
now so I can't go check.

However, you are right about the "movie contamination".

Although the movie did make mistakes, some people do use it to 
supplement the book canon.  For example, her ponytails, *could* have 
been covering a house pin to keep from revealing what house she's 
in.  A fact that is *not* stated in (book) canon yet.

Here's what I know about the movie uniforms:
At 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/chat/hotseat/newsid_2516000/2516865.
stm, I found this interview with Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) and
Shirley Henderson (Moaning Myrtle).
"Lizo: There's been a lot of speculation on the internet earlier
about your uniform and what house Myrtle was in when she was at
Hogwarts - I've been trying to look at it but I couldn't quite see.

Shirley Henderson: I can't remember what it is.

Tom Felton: I'm sure it was Ravenclaw."

Could Shirley really not remember or she was asked to keep it a 
secret.  Tom may have given something away that he wasn't supposed 
to.  

One more bit on the movie uniform:
"And we think we solved one mystery that no one's ever had the answer
to before. She wore a blue uniform - which means she must have been
in Ravenclaw house."

I found that at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_2526000/2526767.stm
The problem is I don't know if the above quote was based on
observation of the film or on the actual uniform she wore. If they
were watching the film, then they saw the ghostly Myrtle which makes
it hard to tell color.  However if they saw the actual uniform the 
actress wore, then she has a ravenclaw.

None of the above is conclusive, but Myrtle's movie uniform is 
leaning toward Ravenclaw.

Yolanda