Student list question

[nyarth_meow]

No: HPFGUIDX 36363


Elirtai asked
> My question is about the 'school list' drawings and how they
> relate to the books. We get to see part of the student list.
> For every name we see the house they were to be sorted into,
> and two symbols. The first symbol is either a black square or
> a white circle. The second one is a letter N in a box, a plain
> Star of David, or a circle-enclosed Star of David.
> 


  JKR in a BBC documentary "Harry Potter and me" showed this list to 
the camera briefly.  She said it showed every student in Harry's 
year, what house they were in, and whether they were muggle-born, 
wizard-born or half-blood.  She said it was important for allegiences 
in the later books.  I can't figure out how the symbols refer to 
parentage, though.
Oh, wait... the O's and X's I think are gender... all the girls have 
an O, all the boys an X.  
So i suppose the N, D, (D)  refers to their breeding, but I can't see 
how.  We know Justin and Hermione are muggle-born, they both have an 
[N].   The star of David and the circled star of David must be hal-
blood and full-blood, but I don't know which is which.

Interestingly, whichever symbol means half-blood, there's half-bloods 
in Slytherin (look at Bulstrode and Goyle - different symbols). 
 I've always wondered whether or not muggle-borns get sorted into 
Slyth - some people assume they aren't. But the traits of ambition 
and cunning are hardly exclusive to the wizard born.  



> The question marks mean the original is unreadable.
> 
> Name                    Symbol       Symbol         House
> 
> Abbott, Hannah          O           [N]            H
> Bones, Susan            O            D             H
> Boot, Trevor (*)        X           [N]            R
> Brocklehurst, Mandy     O            D             R
> Brown, Lavender         O           (D)           (G)
> Bulstrode, Millicent    O            D             S
> Corner?, Michael        X            D             H
> Cornfoot?, Stephen      X           (D)            R
> Crabbe, Vincent         X           (D)            S
> Davis, Tracey           O            D             S
> Entwhistle, Kevin       X           [N]            R
> Finch-Fletchley, Justin X           [N]            H
> Finnigan, Seamus        X           (D)           (G)
> Goldstein, Anthony      X            D             H
> Goyle, Gregory          X           (D)            S
> Granger, Hermione       O           [N]           (G)
> Graingrass?, Amelie?    O           (D)            S
> Hopkins, Wayne          X            D             H
> Jones, Megan            O            D             H
> Li, Su                  O            D             R
> Longbottom, Neville  ???????????? (**)
> McDougal, Isabel (***)  O           (D)            R
> 


-Nyarth