[HPforGrownups] Is the Head of my House a Hobbit?

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 33195

dittanymorgan wrote:
> 
>      Has no one else wondered about the origins of "tiny Professor
> Flitwick," he who has to stand on a pile of books in order to see
> over his desk and teach Charms?  After all, we never see his feet
> (shod or un...) Yes, I know his hair is snowy (not brown) and he
> sports a beard.  Who's to say that Hobbits don't go grey and grow
> beards - even though Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin managed to stay
> cleanshaven from Bagend to the Falls.

Well, he'd have to be a Stoor (the only group of hobbits with any
facial hair at all) -- or maybe it's a false beard!  :)


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>