Meaning of Symbols and the second page? (WAS List of Harry's year at Hogwarts)

Hollydaze hollydaze at btinternet.com
Sat Dec 29 22:50:39 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 32345

> 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.

I've been re-examining these and I've noticed that "Hermione" and "Justin Finch-Fletchly" both have an "N" in a square next to their names. Both of them are known to be Muggle Born so could that be what that Symbol means?

I'm not sure about it though as "Seamus" has a star in a circle which if the previous one is true would mean this symbol is half blood (Seamus has a muggle dad and Witch mum) but Goyle has the same and I can't see his death-eater father marrying a Muggle, Crabbe has the same (star in a circle)

It also can't be that each symbol is different (as in power is the surrounding shape or lack of it and Parentage is the shape in the middle or vice versa) as all the "N's" are surrounded by Squares!

Also one other thing, I'm guessing that other people have noticed that all the Gryffindor's mentioned on the first page have a circle round the G marking them as Gryffindors. Well what's the point? I'm just asking as what if the point is that JK has marked out which Gryffindors she is planning to mention in the books? Meaning that there are a couple of Gryffindor's that have not been mentioned (possibly on the other page) and these ones DON'T have a ring round the G. it's just that otherwise I can't see a point to marking them out.

Has anyone else worked out what these symbols could mean cos at the moment they are just confusing me!

Also the second page has two Macs at the top of it, one in blue ink at the top and one that seems to have been added later in Black, these are above Mal (Malfoy) and then Moon, one of these must be Ernie Macmillan (sp) and the other Possibly Morag. We hardly know anything about Morag, maybe she has a twin just like the Patil twins (Am I imagining things or has that been written as PatEl in this photo?) or even two people with the same surname who are unrelated, or indirectly related (cousins or similar).

I have used enlargements of the stills put on the club to get a closer look at the names and from what I can tell the list seems to be:
Abbott, Hannah.
Bones, Susan.
Boot, Trevor. (his name seems to have been changed to Terry in the books)
Brocklehurst, Mandy.
Brown, Lavender.
Bulstrode, Millicent.
Corner, Michael.
Cornfoot, Stephen.
Crabbe, Vincent.
Davis, Tracy.
Entwhistle, Kevin.
Finch-Fletchley, Justin.
Finnigan, Seamus.
Goldstein, Anthony.
Goyle, Gregory.
Granger, Hermione
Greingrass, Queenie 
Hopkins, Wayne.
Jones, Megan.
Li, Su.
Longbottom, Neville.
???Dougal, Isabel (the original name appears to have been Katrina as a K...A...T and R are visible with what looks very like an "I" next, the next letter is hidden by JK's finger as is part of the last letter which appears to be an A) 
(Thankyou to Muridae for working most of those out) The rest of the list seems to be something along the lines of:
Mac(Dougal, Morag)?
Mac(Millan, Ernie)? (this one could be another "Mal" but it is more likely to be a "Mac" unless JK really didn't remember to change "Isabel" to "Morag"in which case Morag should be Isabel and the one above is Ernie, leaving this one unknown)
Mal(foy, Draco)
Moo(n)
Nott
Park(inson)
Patel (Padma)
Patel (Parvati)
Perks (Sally-Ann)
Potter (Harry)
?ran (as far as I can see, this one is illegible due to the three crossings out below it)
Rive(can just be seen in the 2nd top photo but is not visible on either of the other two due to a crossing out below it and being cut off in the 1st top photo)
Rope(something as the E joins on to another letter that is not in the picture)
Runc (Possible Runcorn)
Smith
Spink(s...it is unclear if this is the full name as the S is half of the page)
Thom(as, Dean)
Turpi(n, Lisa)
Weasl(ey, Ronald/Ron)
Zabini, (Blaise)

HOLLYDAZE!!!


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