Symbols next to names on list

[UcfRentLuvr at cs.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 32336


I've been looking at the pictures of the list of students and have a 
*tentative* guess as to what the symols mean.  I think the N with the box 
around it means Muggle born, the star with the circle means Halfblood, and 
the star by itself means Pureblood. These are only guesses as some of the 
symbols for certain people are iffy.

If you look at the names with the N, we have Hannah Abbot, Trevor Boot (I 
thought it was Terry?), Kevin Entwhistle, Justin Finch-Fletchley, and the 
lately added Hermione. The evidence for this is that we *know* Hermione is 
Muggle born and in CoS, Justin states his name was down for Eton, meaning he 
is Muggle born too. 

The star with the circle: Lavender Brown, Seamus Finnegan, Goyle, Crabbe, and 
some others that we don't know. We know Seamus is half because he says so. 
There have been some guesses that Lavender is Muggleborn because she didn't 
know what Mudblood meant, but that could--and this is just speculation--mean 
she doesn't know what it means because the parent that is Wizard born never 
told her. My only problem here is that Crabbe and Goyle are listed with the 
star with the circle. I don't know why they would be Death Eaters if they 
were part Muggle themselves, unless, perhaps, they had a bad childhood or 
something. 

The star by itself: Susan Bones. We know that her grandparents were killed by 
the Death Eaters. However, you could argue that because it was only her dad's 
parents, her mother just might be muggle.

For those that watched the special: did JKR say how old that list was and if 
that was just a preliminary list or does she still use it?  I ask this 
because the two different start symbols are a bit confusing. We know Seamus 
is half but is Lavender? And are Crabbe and Goyle that desparate that they 
had to go into the Muggle world to find wives? ;) Plus, the only person we 
know of in the "Star by itself" category is Susan and that just isn't strong 
enough evidence.

Can anyone back me up/think of another reason for the symbols?

***Dixie Malfoy***


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