6th book.

[Big D]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Stella" <shawn_stang at y...> 
wrote:
> I just had a thought on who it might be, what about 
> Dean Thomas?  I was looking on JKR's web site and she has a  
> section with info on him. His back ground is that 
> "Dean is from what he always thought was a pure Muggle 
> background. He has been raised by his mother and his stepfather; 
> his father walked out on the family when Dean was very young. 
> He has a very happy home life, with a number of Half-brothers 
> and sisters."
> 
> In this section she comments that she was going to put his 
> background in COS but sacrificed it for Neville, whose more 
> important to the overall story.... 
> I don't know, I guess I'll just have to wait for the book to come 
> out. I'm hoping that it will be next summer.


And now Big D says:

The same thought had occured to me as well. However, if Dean 
actually was the HBP, I really couldn't see JKR giving away so much 
of his background like that...I mean, it would almost be a dead 
giveaway, and she's always been exceptionally good at not giving 
information away when she hasn't wanted to.

Furthermore, in that same section, she says some other things that 
make me think it's not Dean:

1) She refers to him as a "peripheral character." 
2) She refers to the inclusion of his story in CoS as 
an "unnecessary digression."
3) She comments that doesn't think that "his history will ever make 
it into the books."

She has mentioned, in the wake of the Storgé hoax, that 
only "truthful and accurate" information will find its way onto her 
site, so those three things above really leave no possibility of the 
HBP being Dean.


Seamus is a possibility, I suppose, but I would really be shocked to 
see a character who has been so "peripheral" for so long suddenly 
thrust into the spotlight. It could also be a character who hasn't 
been introduced yet. Or one who lived in the past, who has some 
important meaning in the present.

Big D