Student list question

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 44109

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "nyarth_meow" <rshuson80 at y...> wrote:
 
> 
>   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.   
> 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.

We know that Seamus is a halfblood and he has a circled star, so if 
you are right, the circle star is the symbol for a halfblood.

> 
> 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.

That means Goyle is the halfblood. But so was Voldemort himself. I 
suppose Slytherin makes a difference between muggle born and half 
blood.  

Hickengruendler