Which Weasley's going to die?

James Redmont jamesredmont at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 15 14:42:04 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 77337

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jedi_hermione" 
> 
> In one of the ancient mythologies (I can't recall which one; they 
all 
> tend to run together in my mind), a man named Weasley (Weasly in 
some 
> variants) was killed by a rat.  I've always assumed this was one 
of 
> Rowling's cruel namings and indicated that a Weasley would be 
> murdered by Peter Pettigrew.
> 
> If no one can find a direct Rowling quote contributing to this 
> theory, it could have originated from mythology instead, and, 
given 
> Rowling's record with the matter, is likely accurate.

Me:

This "myth" has been discussed and dismissed on some sites.  If 
you're going to post something like this, please, PLEASE post a link 
or page number of a book where we can look it up.  We're having 
enough problems with people misquoted the HP books without spreading 
rumors about myths...

James Redmont, who is happy that some teens can benefit from HP4GU





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