List of Harry's year at Hogwarts - Rowlings character illustrations

[Muridae]

No: HPFGUIDX 32324

Hollydaze wrote:

>Ok, firstly I have to confess that I was very sad and after having 
>recorded the interview with JK Rowling that was on the BBC last night I 
>sat and re-wound the tape to the place where she showed us the list of 
>people in Harry's year that said how powerful they were, what house 
>they were in and who their parents were and I copied it down. There 
>were four columns on the page that she showed us. The first was the 
>names, then a symbol to say if they were male of female, then one that 
>I'm not sure but looks like it could be the one to do with how powerful 
>they were and then one about the house they are in. The stuff to do 
>with their parents was on the opposite page not shown by the camera.

Viewing the documentary in widescreen, and having the benefit of seeing 
the extra bit at the right of the screen that otherwise gets cut off, 
it's just about possible to see that the opposite page actually contains 
the M-Z children in Harry's year and not any extra information on the 
allegiances of their parents.

Which means that the symbols that we haven't figured out yet in the 
second column are what Rowling meant when she said that she'd listed how 
powerful they were and/or what their parents allegiances were. I wonder 
if by *that* she might have meant whether they were pureblood or Muggle 
born, or whether she was indicating whether they were naturally gifted 
at magic without having to study overmuch, or whether their proficiency 
comes from studying hard and practising diligently.

It's a real shame that we don't get the symbols for Harry, Ron, Draco, 
or even Neville (his name is written in place alphabetically, but his 
sex, magic and house details aren't there). The only one of the well 
known characters whose details are shown is Hermione, which makes it 
more difficult to spot trends.

But if anybody wants to try, I've taken screen captures of the list. 
They're widescreen captures, which means that you can actually see a 
couple more letters of most of the M-Z surnames than were visible when I 
was doing my freeze framing last night. <g> You can find them at the 
following link:

http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/hpforgrownups/lst?.dir=/Harry+Potter
+%26+Me&.src=gr&.order=&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/gr
oup/hpforgrownups/lst%3f.dir=/Harry%2bPotter%2b%2526%2bMe%26.src=gr%26.vi
ew=t

If your email software breaks that into multiple lines, just log into 
Yahoogroups, click on the "Photos" link for the group, and then click on 
the album called "Harry Potter & Me" (which was the name of the 
documentary).

As an added bonus, I've also included Rowling's own illustrations of the 
characters which she showed off during the documentary, as they're 
rather nice.

-- 
Muridae