JKR Chat and Sirius' Death

[sophierom]

No: HPFGUIDX 92180

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "karenlyall666" 
<karen.lyall at b...> wrote:
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> And my last thought.  We now know from the chat that the marauders 
> were all Gryffindors and from the Pensieve scene in OOTP we know 
they 
> were in the same year.  
> 
> Can anyone point me to a piece of canon that state's Lily was a 
> Gryffindor and that she is the same age as James et all.  If we 
can't 
> find it maybe that's why Harry didn't look for her in the pensieve 
> scene because she wasn't supposed to be there?

Sophierom:

This isn't definitive canon, but here are two snips from the OotP 
(UK edition), which suggest that Lily was at least in the same year 
as James (can't find anything on her house):

1. Canon that suggests Lily was in the Great Hall
p. 566 - "A gang of chattering girls separated Snape from James ..."
p. 568 - "The sunlight was dazzling on the smooth surface of the 
lake, on the bank of which the group of laughing girls who had just 
left the Great Hall were sitting ..."
p. 570 - "'Leave him ALONE!' ... It was one of the girls from the 
lake edge ... Harry's mother."


2. Canon that suggests Lily was the same year as James:
'How come she married him?' Harry asked miserably. 'She hated him!'

'Nah, she didn't,' said Sirius.

'She started going out with him in seventh year,' said Lupin.(UK 
ed., 591)

The fact that Lupin just says "seventh year" and not "his" or "her" 
seventh year makes me think it was the seventh year for both.  This 
second piece isn't as strong as the first piece of canon; I think #1 
pretty clearly suggests that Lily made her way from the Great Hall 
to the Lake's Edge and then to Snape's defense.  

Sophierom