Susan Bones (Was: Re: what surprised you the most?)

pbnesbit at msn.com pbnesbit at msn.com
Wed Aug 8 00:37:26 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 23829

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., pbnesbit at m... wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The Bones who were killed were Susan Bones' grandparents.  Can't 
> find 
> > which page it's on, but it's in GoF.  
> 
> That fact was only mentioned in an interview with JKR with Barnes & 
> Noble.com. 
> 
> Susan's grandparents were mentioned in a group of "some of the best 
> witches and wizards of the age" by Hagrid in SS when he's telling 
> Harry about Voldemort, although we aren't told then their 
> relationship to Susan. Later, we meet Susan briefly when she is 
> sorted into Hufflepuff, but still aren't told that there is a 
> connection to the folks killed by Voldemort. Those are the only 
times 
> we hear anything of Susan or her family. 
> 
> JKR was asked in that interview if there was a connection between 
> Susan and the Bones that Hagrid mentioned and JKR said that the 
Bones 
> who were killed were Susan's grandparents. 
> 
> Steve Vander Ark
> The Harry Potter Lexicon
> http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon


Oops!  I goofed!  This is what happens when you've got all this 
*stuff* running around in your head & can't remember where you read 
it or heard it.  Thanks, Steve, for setting me straight. 

Peace & Plenty, 

Parker 





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