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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