Lexicon Contmaination-James was in Gryffindor

[nkittyhawk97]

No: HPFGUIDX 84706

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermowninny719" 
<hermowninny719 at y...> wrote:
> > Joe: I seem to remember that in OOP Harry was thinking about Ron 
> and 
> > it said that "The truth was that Ron had just reminded Harry 
> forcibly 
> > of another Gryffindor Quidditch player who had once sat rumpling 
> his 
> > hair under this very tree". 
> > 

> Now me:
> The quote above illustrates that Harry *thought* James was in 
> Gryffindor.  It doesn't necessarily make it true.
> 
now for a little input from nkittyhawk *smiles*: I'm reminded of the 
countless times Harry sees someone who is described as "a Hufflepuff 
he hadn't seen before", or "a Ravenclaw he didn't know".
If he hadn't seen them before, or didn't know them, how would he 
know if they were in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw? I always assumed (and 
this was before the movies came out, so it's not contamination) that 
the house you belonged to was on your robes or something. How else 
would Harry know who was in Hufflepuff or ravenclaw if he didn't 
know them?
This would, therefore, be a good reason that Harry would describe 
his father as a Gryffindor, since he had seen it for himself.