[HPforGrownups] Peter and the Marauders (WAS Re: What's in the Box?)

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 177111

zgirnius:
> Since some posters have objected to the 40-a-year suggestion...I would 
> point out it is not necessary to your theory (which I also believe 
> <g>). Harry, Ron, Seamus, Dean, and Neville were assigned their room, 
> they did not choose it. If there were other Gryff boys we simply never 
> met, they were assigned to another room or rooms. The rooms seem to 
> typically have 5 occupants, but the odds that the number of boys in a 
> given year is always evenly divisble by 5 is slim...so there is no 
> reason that the four Marauders could not have been the four boys 
> assigned to one room at the start of their first year. And the logic 
> for including Peter would remain the same.

Bart:
	I did point out that the 40 per year theory only increased the 
probability that they were roommates. And I have, as I said, seen people 
keep other people in thrall through the basic message of, "you're 
worthless, nobody wants you, you're lucky that I will put up with you", 
I recognized it in Peter. The only difference I can see is that I don't 
think James and Sirius, or even Lupin, had any idea what they were doing 
to Peter.

	Bart