James/MWPP in Slytherin (was MWPP in all 4 Houses)

[Doriane]

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Christie Nixon wrote:

> This brings up a question about how someone like Peter
> Pettigrew (or even Percy Weasley?) may have been
> sorted into Gryffindor.

Agreed. Peter is neither courageous, nor very smart, nor very loyal. 
But he's very ambitious for sure, always trying to get in the biggest 
bully's favours. His place was in Slytherin.

> Doesn't Malfoy call Crabbe and Goyle "Crabbe and
> Goyle"?

Yes he does, but I believe it's for a different reason. I think he's 
just reproducing his father's behaviour towards C&G senior. I see it 
as a kind of master-servant relationship.

> I think that James and Lily call each other by
> their last names because the fake fomality and the
> forced distance is like flirting - they have crushes
> on one another. 

That doesn't work for me. Imagine that Harry and Hermione (or 
Lavender or Parvati) started getting romantically interested in each 
other : would they suddenly revert from calling each other by their 
first names to start using their last names ?? No way.
Moreover, we do know of someone who's calling Hermione by her last 
name... Draco Malfoy. Should we then assume that he's secretly in 
love with her ?

> 3 more reasons why I think MWPP were in Gryffindor:
> 1) In the Three Broomsticks in PoA, McGonagall seems
> to have a certain affection for James and Sirius
> (maybe I was reading something into it) and she would
> have been the Gryffindor head-of-house. 

Good point. Though that affection could have come from their 
outstanding talent in Transfiguration. Just like we can suspect that 
Sprout has affection for Neville because of his love for botanical 
matters, even though he's not in her House.

> 2) since we seem determined that Snape and James were
> in different houses, Snape was definitely in
> Slytherin.

I for one am NOT determined that Snape and James were in different 
Houses. In fact, considering all the interaction they seem to have, I 
think it more likely that they were in the same House.

> 3) There's a trend of Slytherin/Gryffindor rivalry
> that dates back to the founders (CoS)

Yes, but it was exacerbated by the First War so it wasn't necessarily 
that strong when MWPP and Snape started school.

Moreover, if MWPP and Snape were the only boys in their year in 
Slytherin, it helps explain why Snape was a loner, why he didn't 
manage to create his own court, why he had to associate with older 
Slytherins : because James "stole" all the other guys in the class. 
It would also explain why James, Sirius and Remus took Peter with 
them : Snape probably rejected a weakling like him, so they took pity 
on him and took him in instead of leaving him all alone. A bit like 
HRH taking in Neville sometimes.

Del