[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Family?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wendy St John" <hebrideanblack at earthlink.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Family?


>
> Mandy  wrote:
> > > Does anyone else out there wonder if Dumbledore has
> > > or had any
> > > family?  He seems to be a wonderful man and I'd be
> > > surprised if he
> > > was not married at some point.
> >
>
> Nox added:
>
> "How about the Druidess Clidona, former owner of Fawkes? Dumbledore had to
> get that Phoenix from somewhere! Perhaps she was his wife when she was
> alive. Sorry, I can't remeber where the refernce to her is found..."
>
> Now me (Wendy):
>
> Here's the canon on Cliodna: She appears in the books in "The Journey From
> Platform Nine and Three-Quarters" chapter in PS/SS (page 78, UK
paperback).
> She is on one of the chocolate frog cards that Harry gets:
>
> Harry "finally tore his eyes away from the druidess Cliodna, who was
> scratching her nose, to open a bag of Bertie Botts Every-Flavour Beans."
>
> I don't remember another mention of her in the books (someone please jump
> in if there is one and I've forgotten it), but we have a bit of additional
> information about Cliodna, which may or may not be canon (depending on how
> you define it): she appears on one of the American "Chocolate Frog" cards
> (which, btw, are completely different from the ones released in Britain.
> Not even remotely similar). The card reads:

<snip>

I think I remember her mentioned as being the previous owner of Fawkes, but
I cannot remember where (and my books are not here ATM). That's where my
idea came from. I could, of course, have been imagining it...

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