old notes, frog cards & misc. connections?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 74956

I'm hundreds of posts behind, so I hope I'm not repeating 
someone has already answered this:

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "tcyhunt" <tcyhunt at e...> wrote:

<< Davey and Gladys Gudgeon. Gladys was mentioned in CoS as a fan of 
Gilderoy Lockhart and Davey was introduced in PoA as having gone to 
school with MWPP (he was almost 'blinded by the Whomping Willow'). >>

I've always assumed that Gladys is Davey's mother, kind of elderly by 
the time that Davey's classmates are in their 30s. Before GoF came 
out, one of the rumors was that the new DADA teacher would be "Davey 
Gudgeon and his magical eye". I believe that that rumor was true 
("nearly lost an eye" to the Whomping Willow meaning, DID lost an 
eye, but got a replacement) but JKR changed the character's name to 
Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody to spite the rumormongers. 

By the way, I'm accustomed to "gudgeon" as an old-time 
(Shakespearian?), word for 'fool' or gullible person, which probably 
fits Gladys, but would not be a good trait for an Auror like Moody. 

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language 
(http://www.bartleby.com/61/96/G0299600.html ) says: "A small 
Eurasian freshwater fish (Gobio gobio) related to the carp and used 
for bait. b.Any of various similar or related fishes. 2.Slang. One
who is easily duped." and that it is related to "goby". 

I have vague recollections of someone saying that a gudgeon is a kind 
of fish with a big mouth that will swallow anything, thus analoguous 
to a gullible person who will "swallow" any tale. H'mm. I suddenly 
think of Luna...

<< Natalie McDonald >>

I'll quote The Lexicon http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards-l-n.html 
instead of using my own words: "Natalie's name comes from a Canadian 
girl who was very sick. She loved the Harry Potter books and contacted 
JKR. The author wrote her and told her her some of the secrets of the 
books to come, but Natalie had died by the time the letter arrived. 
Natalie's mother responded and she and JKR have since become friends. 
Jo put Natalie in GF, sorted into Gryffindor, as a tribute. (story 
originally appeared in the Toronto Globe and Mail)"