Florence?

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No: HPFGUIDX 3701

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, mmarth at p... wrote:
> I am still going through old messages in hopes that I don't repeat 
> too many things.  I have yet to come across anyone mentioning 
> Florence.  In GoF(A), chapter 30, pg 598, when Dumbledore and Harry 
> are looking in the pensieve, Bertha Jorkins comes out.  She 
mentions 
> a girl by the name of Florence.  Who is Florence?  Is she a nobody 
or 
> as JKR so often does, is she someone important to the story and we 
> just don't know it yet. Snapes face had just appeared in the 
pensieve 
> and a few moments later Dumbledore is bringing up Bertha Jorkins.  

A rather convoluted arguement was once put forth that "Florence" was 
actually Lily, but for that to work you had to suspend your 
disbelief. 

IMHO, of course.

I think the reason Bertha shows up in the Pensieve is because she 
disappeared in Albania -- Voldemort's last known address. And Sirius 
does say that she was nosy, so I'm sure most of Dumbledore's memories 
of Bertha have something to do with the results of her nosiness!

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