Lavender and Parvati

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No: HPFGUIDX 82488

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, lauralexis 
> <screaming_veela at y...> wrote:
> > Hello, all.  I am new to the list, and this is my first post.*  
I 
> searched the archives, but didn't much of anything that would help 
me 
> answer this: why are Lavender and Parvati in Gryffindor??
> >  
> > I've been wondering this a lot lately, actually, and haven't 
really 
> come up with anything.  I believe that they're there for a reason, 
> and that their personalities ("like, omigod!") may just be a 
> smokescreen on JKR's part.
> >  
> > Is there anything in canon that would confirm that they are 
> actually in the right house? I haven't see any myself.
> >  
> 
> Right now, I can think only of one scene that indicates, why 
Lavender 
> is in Gryffindor. It's when Hagrid taught his class Blast Ended 
> Skrewts and they escaped. Most of the class ran away to hide from 
the 
> beasts, but Lavender helped trying to catch them. There is also 
that 
> scene, when Parvati defends Neville after the flying lesson. But I 
> don't think, that's really brave. It was nice, but not especially 
> brave.
> 
> Generally, it is IMO very hard to say, why is this and this 
character 
> in Gryffindor. We haven't see much that indicates why Parvati and 
> Lavender are in Gryffindor, but the same goes for Lee Jordan, Dean 
> Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Oliver Wood, Angelina Johnson, Alicia 
> Spinnett and Katie Bell, and to a lesser grade also for Dennis and 
> Colin Creevey (although both already showed, that they are not 
easily 
> afraid. Dennis, when he fell in the lake, and Colin when he stood 
up 
> to Malfoy and his bodyguards in CoS)
> 
> Hickengruendler

After rereading the first book recently, I remember noticing that 
both girls were more personable in that book than they are in the 
later books.  They talk to the others, including Hermione, and seem 
friendlier.  In the later books they are more clique-ish, and either 
snub Hermione or make fun of her.  The boys (Dean, Seamus) will pal-
around with the others, but the two girls seem to keep their 
distance.  

Ravenclaw Bookworm