Amanda the Mystery

[magisterforan]

No: HPFGUIDX 42088

Hi Group,

Just recently I noticed a misterious girl called Amanda, a kaukasian
young female of Harry Potters year and house(?) in the flying lesson.

While I cant find a person of that name in any of the books, not even
with fulltext search, she gets a special treatment in the first movie:
While the class is greeted summarily, Madame Hooch, while passing her,
glances at her sideways and says: "Hello Amanda."
Amanda is the brownhaired girl with the long single braid, third in
line, a person we never get to see again specifically.

Obviously there is no dramatic reason for that - yet. But why on earth
should Columbus and Kloves introduce her, if not for some hidden
circumstance JKR introduced to them? Time was short, nonetheless this
was left in the film when many other things were cut out.

Can you help me on this? Direct responses to foran at vangor.de would be
appreciated as I cant scan all the posts all the time. :-[

Kind Regards,
Wolfgang G. Wettach aka Magister Foran
Webmaster http://hogwartsonline.de