Lexicon Contmaination-James was in Gryffindor

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 84725

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hermowninny719" 
<hermowninny719 at y...> wrote:
> I hate to argue (well, that's not true, I love it), but I am 
firmly 
> in the camp that JKR is purposly misleading us into believing 
James 
> was in Gryffindor only to reveal in book 6 or 7 that he was not.  

I suppose it's theoretically possible, but what would be the point?  
JKR's surprises are never gratuitous -- they always serve an 
important function in the story, either by furthering the plot or by 
affecting characterization.  What, exactly, do you think JKR would 
achieve by suddenly going, "Hah! Fooled you!" at the tail end of the 
series?  Whatever it is, it would have to be something incredibly 
bangy and important in order to justify 5-odd books' worth of 
carefully planted misdirection, but what the heck could it be?  
Making Harry reevaluate his image of his father?  We just had that 
with the Pensieve scene in OOP.  In fact, that scene would've been 
the perfect opportunity to spring the surprise on us, and the fact 
that JRK didn't indicates to me that she's never going to.  Having 
shown us James as an arrogant, bullying jerk, throwing in "Oh, and 
he wasn't a Gryffindor, either" two books later would be repetetive 
and anticlimactic, IMO.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com