[HPforGrownups] Re: Book 5 and JRK interview on BBC

[Muridae]

No: HPFGUIDX 32313

morsethanatos wrote:

><delurks>
>Hi,
>Is this the interview where she showed the list of all the people in
>Harry's year and how magical they are? If so, were you(the people who
>saw it) able to get anything?

Talking of delurking... Hi, I'm Muridae. I've been hanging around the 
list for a while now, waiting until I had something worth saying before 
breaking into the conversation. My VCR obliged with the necessary 
freeze-frames, so here's what we've got from that all-important list.

Firstly, the bad news. The list is two pages long, and only the first 
page is shown on camera. And it doesn't include any female Gryffindors 
that we didn't know about.

Secondly, it does pretty much settle the question about how many kids 
are in Harry's year. There are several crossings out and late insertions 
(both Hermione and Neville look like they were squeezed in at a later 
point in time), and those corrections make it difficult to get an exact 
head count. But the first page has 22 names on it. The second has 18-20, 
ending with a "W" surname (presumably our Ron) and then a "Z" 
(presumably Blaise Zabini), so it is the complete list for their year. 
So, call it 40 kids with 10 in each house, with the possibility that one 
or two of the houses might have an extra. It would certainly seem to 
confirm all the evidence seen in the books, wherever actual headcounts 
are found.

The list of kids whose names can be seen are:

Abbott, Hannah (Hufflepuff)
Bones, Susan (Hufflepuff)
Boot, Trevor (Ravenclaw)
Brocklehurst, Mandy (Ravenclaw)
Brown, Lavender (Gryffindor)
Bulstrode, Millicent (Slytherin)
Corner, Michael (Hufflepuff)
Cornfoot, Stephen (Ravenclaw)
Crabbe, Vincent (Slytherin)
Davis, Tracey (Slytherin)
Entwhistle, Kevin (Ravenclaw)
Finch-Fletchley, Justin (Hufflepuff)
Finnigan, Seamus (Gryffindor)
Goldstein, Anthony (Hufflepuff)
Goyle, Gregory (Slytherin)
Granger, Hermione (Gryffindor)
Greengrass, Queenie???? (Slytherin)
Hopkins, Wayne (Hufflepuff)
Jones, Megan (Hufflepuff)
Li, Su (Ravenclaw)
Longbottom, Neville (Gryffindor)
McDougal, Isabel (Ravenclaw)

JKR's handwriting is reasonably clear, but there are a couple of places 
where it's not easy to see what was written. The Greengrass child's name 
is my best guess. And I couldn't see a house noted against Neville's 
name... but as I said, he and Hermione were written in late. Each child 
has three symbols against their name. One (the first) indicates their 
sex, the third indicates their house by the first letter of its name, 
and I haven't a clue what the second one means. I may go back and study 
it later, and try to spot patterns in which kids get what.

So far as the second page goes, only the first couple of letters of each 
name are visible. There are three more "M" surnames (the third of which 
must be Moon), one "N" (Nott), a "Pa" (Parkinson), two "Pat"s (Patel and 
Patel), a "Per" (Perks), then a "Pot" (clearly Harry). I couldn't make 
out the next few names (too much crossing out), but the list ends with 
at least three "S" surnames, a "T" (Turpin), a "W" (Ron), and a "Z" 
(Zabini).

Hope that's of some help!

-- 
Muridae