MWPP in all 4 Houses (was: Slytherin and Sirius Black)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 82458

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kneazle255" 
<kneazle255 at y...> wrote:
> The HP Lexicon has OoTP confirming that Lupin and Black 
were in the 
> same House as James Potter. Pettigrew's house is still up in 
the air.
> 


I quote the Lexicon:

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/marauders.html
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Which House were they in? 
Good question. We don't know the answer as yet, although it is 
fairly certain that James was in Gryffindor. In Order of the 
Phoenix, Lupin and Sirius recall that Lupin was made a Prefect 
in the hopes that he could keep James and Sirius in line, which 
strongly suggests that they were all in the same house. There 
are other reasons why this seems almost certain. It seems likely 
that for the four to be as close as they were, they would need to 
all be in the same House. Also, Lupin clearly favored Gryffindor 
when it came to Quidditch and Sirius apparently knew the layout 
of Gryffindor tower pretty well when he snuck in to find Scabbers 
on two occasions. We still don't know for sure, however. 
*****

Steve is not as definite here as on some other Lexicon pages. 
He's also a tad circular (sorry Steve!)  

He says it's a good bet  that Lupin was made a prefect because 
he was in the same House, but the  support he offers is the 
further assumption that close friends have to be in the same 
House. 

If you don't accept that, (what about  Percy/Penelope and 
Cedric/Cho?) then Lupin could still have been made a prefect 
with the hope that he would feel responsible for his friends' 
conduct and rein them in even though they were in different 
Houses.  Lupin doesn't say he should have taken House points 
from James and Sirius. He says he should have told them they 
were out of line and to lay off Snape.

As for Sirius knowing where the entrance to the Gryffindor 
Common Room is, and about the Fat Lady, Harry knows where 
all the Common Rooms are from  the Marauders Map which 
Sirius helped make. Of course that doesn't explain how Sirius 
knew which bed was Ron's, but neither would being a former 
Gryffindor.  Maybe Sirius smelled a rat <g>

Pippin