[HPforGrownups] OoP SPOILER: Number of New Characters

[fridwulfa]

No: HPFGUIDX 59718


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>
> Lynn:
>
> First, there are some posts focusing on just GoF
> but from this post it suggests that he was
> speaking about all 4 books so all characters
> covered in the first four are included.  This
> would make sense since characters from other
> books are supposed to return for this one.
>
> Second, Dadalus Diggle already spoke in PS when
> Harry and Hagrid first went into The Leaky
> Cauldron so he should be striken from the list.
>
> Third, it is a good idea to figure out who's
> voice has been heard but may not be heard here,
> which would mean there are more than 9 new
> voices.  We probably wouldn't hear Quirrell again
> and would we necessarily hear Mr. & Mrs.
> Honeyduke's again?  How about the unnamed
> house-elves?
>
> (edited)


 Me: (Izaskun)
You're forgeting Cedric. I don't think we'll hear him again unless Harry
goes to the land of the death and meets him there. And that applies to
Crouch Sr. and Crouch Jr. of course, and Frank Bryce and Bertha Jorkins,
they're not supposed to be around again. Maybe we'll hear the Potters, I
don't know. I'd make sense, of course, we know Harry hears them when the
Dementors are near, so it could happen again, trip or not to the land of
death. And I don't think we'll be hearing Dudley's friend, you know, the one
who went to the zoo with them in PS/SS. So that makes 6 characters out of
the next book. At the very least. Not to mention the people from Little
Hangleron who appear in GoF, chapter 1, that makes 5 or 6 more.
So I think we can safely presume that in OoP we have at the very least, 20
new characters.

Cheers, Izaskun