Crabbe and Goyle (Was: Marauder's Map, A History; Wasn't Wormtail Worried?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113629

Kate (I think) asked:
<snip>
> > 1) what year are Crabbe and Goyle? its assumed they are the same 
> year as Harry and Draco, Yet during the sorting ceremony in book one 
> thier names are suspiciously absent!
> > 
> 

Christelle replied:
> They're there, hidden by Draco:
> 
> (after his sorting) "Malfoy went to join his friends Crabbe and 
> Goyle, looking pleased with himself."

Carol adds:
JKR didn't supply complete information for the Sorting Ceremony. For
example, she mentions twin girls, Patil and Patil, and we quickly meet
Parvati, who's sorted into Gryffindor, but we don't discover Padma's
name and house (Ravenclaw) until GoF. She also mentions Nott, but we
don't discover Nott's name and house (Theodore/Slytherin) until OoP.
So it's not surprising that she skips over Crabbe and Goyle to get to
the characters who interest her. It's probably obvious even to a
first-time reader that those two will wind up in Slytherin.

But if you need more evidence, just read the various segments on
Potions class, where Goyle's potion is the wrong color or he winds up
 with boils (once from Neville's cauldron melting and once from
Harry's deflected spell in a pre-class confrontation). Crabbe is
present on those occasions, I think, and is always with Goyle and
Draco--at Hogsmeade, in the corridor, at meals, on the Hogwarts
Express. IIRC, they also appear together in Hagrid's Care of Magical
Creatures class, which again indicates that they're in the same year
as Draco and Harry.

Carol