[HPforGrownups] Harry & Hermione Siblings?

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 53475


Kathryn:
Before I go into why I think it is possible I want to say that we don't know
much about how magical children are 'found' for Hogwarts. 
 
Taryn:
Actually, JKR has told us:
 
"In Hogwarts there's a magical quill which detects the birth of a magical
child, and writes his or her name down in a large parchment book. 
Every year Professor McGonagall checks the book, and sends owls to the
people who are turning 11. "
 
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript1.htm
 
Me:
My comments were badly phrased. I meant we didn't know the details of how
the system worked. In other words whether Minerva and the rest of the staff
knew the names of the other elevens or if they only checked for that year.
Also since my point was that hermione could have been adopted they would
have known presumably that she was a witch since she was the child of
magical parents but after she was adopted by muggles her name may have been
changed - would the book reflect that? Because if so they might not associat
Hermione Granger with Hermione - whatever she was before. 
Which come to think of it is a flaw in m,y original argument that she could
be a cousin - while I admitted she could have been adopted I assumed her
name had to be Granger before then whereas it could easily have been Potter,
with Granger being the adoptive parents' surname.

K