Blame Fryffindor for everything (wasRe: good and bad slytherins)

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 175177

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at ...> 
wrote:
> She was not only enticed away from 
> her Muggle family, but from her friends outside of her school house.  
> In the end, we get a Lily who makes fun of a gift her sister gave her.
> 
> If house exerts an influence, then all houses, not just Slytherin, 
> exert an influence, in my opinion.

va32h:

Okay, now I think you are stretching things too far. Lily developed her 
aesthetic appreciation of vases in Gryffindor house too? She didn't 
like Petunia's Christmas gift because Gryffindors poisoned her mind 
with thoughts about what an attractive vase ought to look like?

Because it's completely impossible that a woman could dislike a gift 
given to her by a relative just because it's not her taste or she finds 
it ugly. You've never been given a gift you didn't like?

I would think that the very fact that Petunia and Lily exchange 
Christmas gifts is evidence that Lily has not been "enticed" away from 
her family. Petunia knows how to communicate with her sister, knows who 
her sister is married to, knows that she has a nephew and this nephews 
age and name. 

Lily's parents both died sometime between Lily's first year (when they 
are at King's Cross with her) and Lily's own death (since Petunia is 
Harry's only living relative at that time.) If Lily is closer to James 
and Sirius than she is to her own family, perhaps it is because her 
parents (who found her magical abilities delightful) are dead and she 
has only a sister who calls her a freak. 

But wait, let me guess - Sirius and James murdered the Evanses, right? 
So they could further entice Lily down the path of evil Gryffindorness. 

va32h