Help! McGonagall's book of babies born with magical powers

[Doreen Rich]

No: HPFGUIDX 12390

I am so so so so sorry! Yes, that is exactly where I read that. And 
it is so frustrating to realize that it was not from one of the 
books, but rather from something I read on the internet. This is the 
second time that this has happened to me. The first time, was when I 
distinctly remembered reading that Molly Weasley was the only Weasley 
who was not a redhead. It turned out to be a statement made on a 
German HP website, next to a picture drawn by one of its readers.(In 
the meantime, I found the line in PoA describing the black & white 
picture of the Weasleys, saying, "all with flaming-red hair" PoA-1)

I guess this is sort of like waking from a dream and not knowing 
whether something really happened or if it was part of your dream. 

I should have known that if I could not find it in here or in the 
Lexicon, that it must exist elsewhere, because between the two, there 
is not much left in the books that is not in one or the other. 
Again, my apologies for your loss of sleep. If I lived nearby, I 
would offer to babysit while you took a much-deserved nap.

Egg-on-my-face Doreen

> Found it! Found it! And damn you for asking a question like this, 
that I
> *had* to find the answer to, on a night when I got the kids to bed 
early
> and could have crashed early myself!
> 
> (1)
> Message #9707 states (in part, at the end):
> 
> I agree with Meg.  In one of the online chats with JKR on 
Scholastic.com
> (the transcripts are printed there), JKR says,"In Hogwarts there's a
> magical quill which detects the birth of a magical child, and 
writes his
> or her name down in a large parchment book.  Every year Professor
> MacGonagall checks the book, and sends owls to the people who are
> turning 11."  > Amy Johnston