[HPforGrownups] Symbols next to Characters' Names (HP&Me) - Meanings?

[Jedi Knight Jo]

No: HPFGUIDX 40015

>>I don't know if this has already been brought up, but I was reading 
the FAQs and it seemed like the symbols in JKRs journal were under 
debate as to what they really are.  

I copied down all of them while watching (faithful-obsessive fan that 
I am) and was looking for patterns - I came to a conclusion, a few 
actually:<<

Wow. You must have really really good eyesight to have seen all of them.  I tried when it was on but I couldn't see very much.

>>Then there is a coloured in square, or an open circle. I think the 
dark square is if the character is male (except, oddly enough, in the 
case of Neville Longbottom), thus making the circle mean the 
character is female. <<

Maybe Neville is going to reveal something later on in the books? ;) 

>>After that, there are symbols of stars, one plain, one in a circle, 
and an "N" in a square. I think simply the star means 1/2 blood 
(Seamus has the star with a circle, but the circle is crossed out, 
making him half blood, as he says), the star with the circle around 
it is pure-blood, and the N with a square around it is muggle born<<

I thought they were supposed to represent how powerful they were for JK's reference?  That wouldn't necessarily mean that the symbols stood for their pureness (or not) of blood, would it?  Hermione is (or seems to be for now) a much more powerful witch than, say, Neville - but she is Muggle-born and Neville is pure-blood.  On the blood front though, how pure is Harry?  His mum and dad were a witch and a wizard, but his mum was Muggle-born, so does that make him pure-blood or half-blood?

--Jo





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