Possible Flint or Plot device?

Wed Oct 24 02:07:05 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 28118

My husband just came back from a month long field problem and said that he (and about a quarter of his unit) ended up buying and reading HP and the SS because it was the only thing available (Yeah! He finally read it!  I've only been trying to get him to read it for the last 2 years.   Of course his excuse was that they ran out of articles in the men's magazines to read and it was that or romance novels.[direct quote from him written under protest from me])  Anyway he asked me a question that I had no answer for (and yes I did check the VFAQ on the lexicon to see if anyone else had said anything about it.)  He asked about something that Hagrid said and something that happened during the Sorting Ceremony.

  In the Scholastic paperback edition pg 69 it says:

Hagrid speaking:
"No one lived after he decieded ter kill 'em, no one except you, and he killed some o' the best witches an' wizards - the McKinnons, the Bones, the Prewetts - an' you was only a baby, an' you lived."
  Same book and edition pg 148:
The table on the right cheered and clapped as Hannah went to sit down at the Hufflepuff table.  Harry saw the ghost of the Fat Friar waving merrily at her.
"Bones, Susan!"
"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat again, and Susan scuttled off to sit next to Hannah.

His question is was this a Flint or is it a possible plot device?  Or was she just reusing the name?  Any ideas would be welcomed.
Danette

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