CHAPTER DISCUSSION PS/SS 8 THE POTIONS MASTER

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 188286

> Why don't Gryffindors treat Harry with the same sort of
> awe the other students do?
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> Alla:
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> I think this is one of the reasons Hat did not plan to put Harry in any other house but Gryffindor. Oh we can see that they are initially happy to have The Harry Potter among them, but as you said, I totally agree that a lot of students do not treat Harry as celebrity, but as a housemate and some of them as friend (if Harry lets them lol). I find this to be a very commendable quality and am glad that Harry was often allowed to be just Harry even if only among Gryffindors and of course the older he got the more his status weighed on his shoulders, whether his housemates treated him as such or no.
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> As to why they did so? I will go on a limb and speculate that a lot of them were decent kids and empathetic enough to think that maybe celebrity status is not always the most fun thing to have, or maybe they just did not care.


Montavilla47:

Of course, they didn't all do that.  Colin Creevey and Romilda Vane were 
both in Gryffindor and they seemed to be attracted to Harry's celebrity.
So was Ginny Weasley in the beginning.

But I'm sure that was bound to happen with someone or other.  

I don't think that Gryffindor was necessarily unique in the way it 
treated Harry.  If he had been placed in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, I'm 
sure that his housemates would have quickly settled down to treating
him as any other student.  They did that for the most part anyway.