Great Uncle Algie

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 73473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jtdogberry" <jtdogberry at h...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> Yes, it had to be said.
> This bring me on to the flint. In GOF it mentions Augustus Rookwood 
> yet in OOTP it is Algeron. Algie is a short form of Algeron 
> (think "The Importance of Being Ernest" by Oscar Wilde).
> However, 
> Neville has seen his Uncle a few times including the memorable time 
> when he was eight and so can conclude that he is not the same as 
> Rookwood who has been in Azkaban. I have to add at this point that 
> Neville made no mention of recognition of Rookwood in the 
Department 
> of Mysteries and so it could be a flint.
> 

More important than that, Rookwood was in Azkaban for around 15 years 
until he broke out with Bellatrix and the others. It would have been 
impossible for him to travel to Assyria and buy the Mimbulus 
Mimbletonia for Neville.  
 
Hickengruendler