Lily and James Job and Hagrid's House

Mandy ExSlytherin at aol.com
Mon May 17 21:10:44 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 98634

moonmyyst13 wrote:
> I am new to this chat board and am really enjoying it - thank you.
> I have 2 quesitons that some friends of mine and I are wondering 
> about:
> 1) We all assume that Lily and James were Aurors.  Were they?  If 
> not, what were their jobs?  They made a good bit of money to leave 
> for Harry unless that is money handed down from James' side of the 
> family.
> 2) What house was Hagrid in?  In CoS, Tom confronts Hagrid in his 
> room, thus leading one to believe that he is in Slytherin, or else 
> Tom would not have access to his room.  Is this correct or have we 
> missed something?



Mandy here:
Welcome. There is no canon to support that Lily and James were 
Aurors, however is has been speculated that one or both might have 
been in training to be Aurours when they died.  Although imo, Lily 
and James just didn't have enough time to fight LV, get married, have 
a baby and to be in school training to be Aurours. (According to 
Tonks, Auror training takes about 2-3 years I believe. Sorry I don't 
have my books handy.)

Good question about Hagrid's house.  I've just finished CoS again and 
I hadn't thought about where Riddle confronted Hagrid about Aragog.  
I assumed it was one of the many unused rooms in the castle.  It 
seems unlikely to me that Hagrid was in Slytherin, as he is such a 
nice person and it's looking less likely that there are any nice 
people in Slytherin at all. I, personally, would put Hargid in 
Huffelpuff, as a hardworking underdog, but his huge loyalty toward 
Gryiffindor points to the fact that he may have spent his brief stint 
at Hogwarts in Gryiffindor tower.

Cheers, Mandy







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