Symbols on list

[fifteen_inch_maple_wand]

No: HPFGUIDX 32367

Caroline Flowers <cmf_usc at y...> wrote:
> I was thinking:
> boxed N's = Muggle born;
> stars = wizard-family born;
> circled stars = DE connection (either in the family,
> or, what the student will grow up to be)
> 
> What do you all think?  I noticed 3 of 4 Slytherins
> have the circled stars, (and we know Crabbe & Goyle
> have DE for parents.)   There are two Gryffindors
> --Lavender and Seamus.  Can anyone point me to
> information on their families?  (I know Seamus has a
> witch mom and Muggle dad; is the dad still with the
> family?  An abandonment might turn Seamus or his mom
> to the DE's....)

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the symbol next to 
Seamus' name has a squiggly line over the circle like it's been 
crossed out. This and the fact that both Crabbe and Goyle have 
circles with stars in it left me with the conclusion that the stars 
stood for half-blood and the circled stars stood for pure-blood. It 
appears to me that JKR originally had Seamus as a pure-blood and then 
changed her mind for whatever reason, just as it appears as if Tracey 
Doris was originally a muggle born but has been changed to a half-
blood (perhaps something to do with one of her parents?)

I have no idea as to what the first lot of symbols means though.
Beck