An acronym, why can't JKR count, etc.

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 57799

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bowlwoman" <bowlwoman at y...> wrote:
> 
> The Patil sisters (twins, Parvati is in Gryffindor and Padma is in 
> Ravenclaw)

Oops on me; I completely forgot about them.

> It could also be very possible that JKR doesn't want to create a 
> family tree for each and every student, so she's only mentioning 
> family when it makes sense in the story.

I can certainly buy this argument, but given how many years students
go to Hogwarts, there is a very good chance that they would overlap
with any siblings, and you'd think they'd come up in conversation once
in a while.  I was certainly well aware of my school friends'
siblings, though perhaps only the ones who were very close in age got
discussed with any regularity.  Is JKR an only child?

> We assumed that Draco had a mother

I suppose so, though for a while it seemed that he might have arisen
from the blood of a dead snake...

Ersatz Harry, who wonders whether Skeeter is more or less evil than Fudge