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

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 83477

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Taryn Kimel" <amani at c...> 
wrote:

> Christie Nixon wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> Del:
> 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 ?
> 
> Taryn:
> It wasn't said that EVERYONE in love would do that. But it 
> certainly occurs as a form of flirting. Harry and Hermione are 
> obviously a different case--they've been best friends.

That's why I was substituting Hermione's name with Lavender or 
Parvati. For that matter, I could also have proposed the full list of 
Harry or Ron or Neville or Dean or Seamus :-) All the guys in Harry's 
year are more or less friends with all the girls in their year. What 
I meant is that I don't see how 2 youngsters that had been calling 
each other by their first names for several years could suddenly 
start using each other's last names, just because they start getting 
romantically interested !

In fact, if it's only a start, then doing that would draw everyone's 
attention to what they are doing, hence to why they are doing it, so 
that everyone would know about their budding feelings, which would 
most probably be the last thing they would want !!

As a matter of fact, you'll notice that Cho Chang became more and 
more "just" Cho as Harry was getting closer and closer to her. Now 
*that* is according to what I know : when 2 people that formerly were 
on a last name basis start using first names, then something romantic 
is often in the air (or at least they've become friends). On the 
contrary, when 2 former friends or lovers start using last names, 
that usually means something broke.

So I keep to what I said : I don't think Lily and James were in the 
same House, because they wouldn't call each other by their last names.

> Then again, I find it really hard to swallow that Lily likes James 
> at the time. Then again, girls of that age have this stupid 
> tendancy to like the jerks. I just don't get it.

LOL ! Yep, that's one thing that mystified my husband when he was a 
teenager : why ever do girls prefer jerks ???

Del