Godric's Hollow -- Name / Other orphans

Stephanie Roark Keener sdrk1 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 2 17:03:42 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 15808

Following the Mrs. Figg conversation, I picked up SS and started 
reading, and of course, find myself now in the middle of CH. 10 of 
PoA...  As I read this time I find myself noticing connections in the 
naming of people I've never noticed before, always on the lookout for 
another Mrs. Figg I guess.  Two things I noticed:

1)I just relized that Godric's Hollow is probably named for Godric 
Gryffindor.  Could Godric's Hollow not be a town, like Hogsmede, but 
a place where Gryffindor's go for protection?

2)I SS, when Hagrid first arrives on the island and tells Harry the 
brief version of Harry's Bio; Hagrid mentions several other families 
who were murdered by Vold./DEs.  One such family is the Bones'(p. 56, 
Amer. pbk), later we see a Susan Bones (p. 119) sorted into 
Hufflepuff (in Harry's year).  If she's from the same family, that 
means there are others, like Harry and Neville, at Hogwarts who come 
from families destroyed by The Dark Lord.  Do we ever see this girl 
again?  (I didn't catch her in CoS or PoA so far.)  Has anybody 
noticed any other kids who might be in a similar situation to Harry 
and Neville?

If you've already talked about this stuff, just point me to the 
archive...
Stephanie







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