Muggle-borns (was: Sorting Muggle-borns)

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 46913

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., jodel at a... wrote:
> Melody states;
> 
> >>So, since Hermione is the only muggle-born in those shared 
classes,<<

> Jodel replied:
> *cough* Dean Thomas. *cough*
> 
> (After all he never heard of Quidditch and was rabbiting on about 
> the West  Ham soccer team for his first year. Doesn't sound like a 
> wizarding kid to  me...)

And Pip replies:
*cough* Canon contradiction *cough*

CoS Ch. 14, p.187 [UK paperback]:
'Dean Thomas, who, like Harry, had grown up with Muggles...'

Dean is described as being like *Harry* - a wizard by blood who has 
been brought up by Muggles, rather than like *Hermione*, a Muggle 
born.

Whether Dean is a Half-blood being brought up by Muggle relatives, 
or a Full-blood who got adopted by Muggles remains to be seen. But 
he's almost certainly *not* muggle born.

 JKR keeps putting a strong emphasis on children resembling their 
fathers (Draco, Harry, Krum, Crabbe, Goyle, all the Weasley's) so 
that there is no doubt that currently all characters with known 
parents have exactly the father they are supposed to have. To my 
suspicious mind, this suggests that there is later going to be a 
plot point that someone's father is *not* who he's supposed to be. 

Or someone [Dean?] doesn't know who their father is, and doesn't 
look like him at all. [grin]


Pip!Squeak