Lily and Alice Longbottom Was: Who were Lily's Hogwarts friends?

[ajlboston]

No: HPFGUIDX 76969

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eric_and_lauri" 
<lmbolland at e...> wrote:
> > Then RSFJenny19 at a... wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well, my vote for a best friend would be Alice Longbottom.
> > > <snip> 
> > > It would definitely explain why Harry has never heard from 
> > > Lily's best friend. Just my guess though :)

> I think you're on to something there.  There's also the possibility 
> of Dorcas Meadows.  She was killed BY Voldemort himself, tho we 
don't 
> yet know *when* she was killed.  Perhaps V. suspected her (as 
Lily's 
> best friend and/or Harry's Godmother, if she might have been) of 
> being secret keeper. Just a theory. Lily's friends could also could 
> be Hestia Jones (the pink cheeked witch) and/or Marlene McKinnon.
> 

Or, how about the Bones family... Susan's relatives who were killed 
off... I would like to see her have a more prominent role as the 
septology winds down, now that she's mentioned again in OOP and Harry 
at least knows her now...

A.J.