Wormtail's Debt? (was: Re: And then there were none.)

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No: HPFGUIDX 93312

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at n...> wrote:
>  Kneasy
> 
> > Go  further - suppose it has tried the same ploy before - with
> > the Marauders. James (Gryffindor), Sirius (Slytherin), Remus
> > (Ravenclaw), Peter (Hufflepuff).
> >
> K
> 
> Argh - this is one of those things that I can't understand and consequently
> *really* irritates me! *Why* oh why do people always put Peter in
> Hufflepuff - the main trait of Hufflepuff is supposed to be *loyalty* - this
> is not exactly the first personality trait which springs to mind when
> thinking about Peter (or even the 500th trait to come to mind for that
> matter). For me Peter is much more about ambition, desire for
> recognition/power, to *be* someone, to be known for something other than
> being that kid who tagged along behind James and Sirius. 

Fair enough, I'm not about to  be dogmatic about it, which House best suits
each character is up for grabs and a matter of a posters personal choice - 
and as DD says - choices define us. 

What interests me more is the disparity within the two groups of friends
and the possible contradictions with the Gryffindor norm as stated by
the Hat. That's not to say that they should be cardboard cut-outs, some
variability is natural, but it's not unreasonable to expect that the members
of Houses would exhibit the House characteristics strongly enough to be
among the personality traits that would spring to mind if you were to 
describe each of them in say, three or four words. That seems to be the
critereon used by the Hat so far as I can see.

There seems to  be much more variation than among Draco's little group
for example, or than among the (admittedly few) Ravenclaws that we've met.
It's intruiging and something to ponder on in the dark watches of the night.

Kneasy