Who was that masked man? wasRe: Estel is the Half Blood Prince

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Heidi Tandy 
<lists at h...> wrote:
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> But we know from Book 1 that the Norbert_egg came from 
quirrel, <

Pippin:
We know that it came from a card-playing stranger who kept his 
hood up. Has this person ever been positively identified as 
Quirrell? You'd think Hagrid would recognize Quirrell, even with a 
hood on. Especialy if he was wearing it over a turban!


Heidi:
and we  know now from jkr's talk in Edinburgh last month that the 
Hog's Head informant is Dumbledore's brother Aberforth.

Pippin supplies the canon:
>>Ooh—you are getting good. Why do you think that it is 
Aberforth? [Audience member: Various clues. He smells of 
goats and he looks a bit like Dumbledore]. I was quite proud of 
that clue. That is all that I am going to say. [Laughter]. Well yes, 
obviously. I like the goat clue—I sniggered to myself about that 
one.<<

Pippin