L.O.O.N.: -- Harry's blood status -- Animagi -- Evil female

[raolin1 at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30633

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., caliburncy at y... wrote:

> But we also have:
> 
> GOF, Chap. 24, Rita Skeeter's Scoop
>    [Hagrid to Harry]
>    "I'd love yeh ter win, I really would.  It'd show 'em all . . .
>    yeh don' have teh be pureblood ter do it."
> 
> So unless Hagrid is also either lying or somehow misunderstands the 
> criteria for 'blood status' (both of which seem highly unlikely), 
> then we know Harry is not concerned a pureblood just because both 
of 
> his parents are wizards.



Ah, good catch.  I'll surrender my position now!  :)

> Are you certain these are one and the same?  I have seen interviews 
> in which JKR has discussed the character she had to take out from 
GOF 
> (it was a Weasley cousin, BTW), but I don't remember any 
implications 
> that this was also the evil female character JKR had previously 
> referred to.  Do you think you could seek out a link?  Because if I 
> have missed an article then I would love to see it!
> 
> It's quite possible, I suppose, since part of the role of the 
Weasley 
> cousin plot-wise was apparently subsumed into the (previously 
> existing, but then expanded) role of Rita Skeeter, who many 
consider 
> to be the evil female character to whom JKR referred.  Equally 
> likely, of course, is the Death Eater woman shown on trial in the 
> Pensieve that many members guess is Mrs. Lestrange.
> 
> -Luke


Assuming the correctness of the salon article, there's no way they 
could possibly be one and the same.  Well, almost no way, at least.  
The "evil female" would have to be introduced while Crouch Jr was 
impersonating Moody.  For her to then come back as the new DADA 
teacher would then be a real stretch, unless the characters 
absolutely have no idea that she's Evil[TM].  Keep in mind that, 
accepting the reports of this salon article, it's really just a 
coincidence that these two are being introduced in the same book, so 
expecting them to be one and the same is extremely unlikely.

Joshua Dyal