Susan Bones' Family WAS Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Minor Characters

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 76092

SnapesSlytherin at aol.com wrote:
> In the 20 October 2002 Barnes and Noble chat:
> 
> Question: There is a girl named Susan Bones who was sorted in the first book, 
> and there was a family called the Bones that Voldemort tried to destroy. Is 
> this a coincidence, or will Harry meet her in future books? 
> JRK: Susan Bones's grandparents were killed by Voldemort! 
> 
> Then, in OoP (US Version, page 550):
> 
> There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now 
> found themselves the unwilling objects of a gruesome sort of reflected fame as 
> they walked the corridors: Susan Bones, who had an *uncle, aunt, and cousins* 
> who had all died at the hands of one of the ten, said miserably during 
> Herbology class that she now had a good idea what it felt like to be Harry."  
> (Emphasis my own.)
> 
> What happened to her grandparents being killed?  Did JRK change her mind?  Is 
> the American edition wrong (as it so often is...)?  I would think that JRK 
> would mention that Susan's grandparents were killed when she was listing other 
> relatives.

If the uncle, aunt, and cousins were killed by one of the escaped 
DEs, and the grandparents were killed by Voldemort, there is no 
inconsistency.