Lexicon Contmaination-James was in Gryffindor

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 84878

> Marina wrote: 
> 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.  
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Who's to say all Voldemort's followers 
were Slytherins?  Couldn't someone from 
another house also be recruited?

Judging from him becoming an animagi and 
the fact that he survived fighting Voldemort 
three times, we know that James was a skilled 
and powerful wizard.  If Voldemort was looking 
for powerful wizards to aid him, then he would 
have seen James as prime material.

What difference would James house affiliation 
make?  Either way, he would have turned 
Voldemort down for the same reasons.

Some could argue that if he was a Slytherin, 
then many of his housemates became DEs and 
that he would have had more peer pressure to 
join Voldemort than if he'd been in Gryffindor, 
a house that definately turned out far less DEs, 
however there's one point in particular that 
needs to be brought out.  

James was a Marauder, a group composed of four 
close friends.  As we've seen from the trio of 
Harry, Ron and Hermione, this small group is 
pretty tight.  

I'm not saying that his non-maurader, Slytherin 
friends decision wouldn't effect James own 
decision, I'm just saying don't assume too much.

Anyone noble enough to save their enemy from 
a werewolf, could say no to peer pressure from 
housemates who were not his closest friends.

Yolanda