Lexicon Contmaination-James was in Gryffindor

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 84868

Marina wrote: 
> 
> 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 i...

Well, it's not like JKR never makes the same point twice.  I'm 
thinking of the old "death is sudden and arbitrary" deal.  We've seen 
it with both Cedric and Sirius, no?

Maybe the point in finally revealing James, etal to be in Slytherin 
(if indeed they are Slyths) is to show that not all Slytherins grow 
up to be horrible, evil, DEs.  Thus, Harry not only has to deal with 
adjusting his images of James and Sirius (in OoP) as not being pure 
as the driven snow. But, now that he's seen that, he gets hit in Book 
6 or 7 with the realization that they were in Slytherin, but opted 
not to follow the route to Voldemort that many Slytherins chose.  

I'm still of two minds about this.  JKR is still being very coy about 
James' house, IMO.  

Marianne