James/MWPP in Slytherin (was MWPP in all 4 Houses)
jmjklj
kathryn-jones at comcast.net
Fri Oct 24 10:55:50 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 83496
After a discussion of movie contamination with regards to the house
robes, crests, etc., tc says:
"This isn't too hard to explain. The boarding school I referred to
earlier
had 7 houses and some 220 pupils. It was just possible in your middle
years to know nearly everyone. However, it was also possible
(sometimes
much easier) to recognize a group or individual that you didn't know
the
name of as coming from a particular house simply by association or
by where
they were (say on the paths between houses, where they were sitting
in
chapel/dining room, etc.) This is not only entirely feasible, for me
it's
entirely believable based on experience. House ties identified us on
weekdays but on Sundays we'd wear a school tie and other occasions we
wouldn't have this sign, but you'd still know what houses people
belonged
to."
Me:
Also, the houses ate together at meals. Surely, you'd recognize
different house members from where they are seated. So it's quite
reasonable to place a face, not a name with a certain house.
-Kathryn
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