Lestranges' crime

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 8741

Hey, gang:

Clipped from a few posts:

> > It never actually says that they were the Lestranges, though most 
> people think they
> > are because of the woman's fanaticism speech, and the fact that 
we 
> know they're in
> > Azkaban.


> were gone and went to Azkaban rather than renounce him.  From this 
> scene, I got the impression that the Lestranges were the couple 
that 
> Harry saw in the Pensive with Crouch, Jr.


The fact of the matter is, I knew this. I knew that it wasn't given 
as fact, but that most fans assume that it's the case. In the 
Lexicon, I try extremely hard not to let these assumptions creep in, 
but only publish verifiable fact (I'm a regular Binns about it). But 
this one, I must admit, slipped by me. I was in one of those modes 
where I was creating new pages left and right and I did the Azkaban 
page on a whim as I was creating the Dementor page and as a result I 
just put stuff down from memory without actually pulling out my notes 
and making sure. I will have to go in and edit that page, either 
removing their names entirely or putting some sort of "possibly" 
statement in there. Unless, of course, Snuffles can bail me out and 
tell me for sure that the Australian edition DOES name them as being 
the ones sentenced with Crouch Jr.? 

Steve "So much for 'Constant Vigilance'" Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon