Treating Chocolate Frog Wizard Cards as Canon?

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "erisedstraeh2002" 
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:
> Ali wrote:
>  
> > Do you think that it would also then be significant that Sir 
Nearly 
> > Headless Nick was beheaded in 1492? Perhaps Bowman Wright was the 
> > son of Sir Nearly Headless Nick - and Nick was beheaded for his 
> > fling with a witch?
> 
> Then Phyllis wrote: 
> 
> Oooooh - good one, I forgot about Nick's death-year!  Hmmm...too 
much 
> of a coincidence to be a coincidence, IMO.  But the card says that 
> Wright was the son of a Muggle father, so that would mean Nick was 
a 
> Muggle...I always assumed the Hogwarts ghosts were once wizards, 
but 
> perhaps that is an incorrect assumption?? 
> 

And yet, Nick WAS Petrified in CoS. Of course, we aren't sure if the 
basilisk could Petrify anyone and just happened to come across the 
muggle-borns, but certainly Nick's Petrification /could/ support the 
theory that he was at least muggle-born if not a muggle proper.


Rhiannon the Raven-Slyth