[HPforGrownups] The Quill (was Re: Harry's sacrifice)

[Odile Falaise]

No: HPFGUIDX 58588


Pippin wrote:
<<<Hagrid knew that Harry's name had been down since
he was a baby, so the knowledge is available.Gran
Longbottom certainly would have wanted to know. I
thinkanybody who tried to keep her from finding out
would have had a vulture-hatted, handbag-toting shaped
hole in them. :-)>>>

And now me (Odile):
When Hagrid said "his name's been down ever since he
was born" [PS, p. 47] he was in the process of
delivering Harry's Hogwarts letter to him.  So, since
only those children who are born magical get their
name written down when they are born, doesn't it
follow that Hagrid would have deduced that his name
had been down *because* he [Harry] was getting a
Hogwarts letter, rather than the other way around? 
That is, without his [Hagrid's] having prior
knowledge?  To put it another way: Harry got a
Hogwarts letter; therefore, his name had been down
ever since he was born.

Plus, in that scene, Hagrid makes much of the fact
that it would be ludicris- ludicrous- er, unbelievable
if a child of Lily and James Potter turned out to be
not magical, which leads me to believe that it must be
a very rare occurance indeed for a Muggle/Squib child
to be born of a witch and wizard.  

I think that is why Gran Longbottom refused to accept
that little Neville, whose parents were powerful
aurors, was a Muggle/Squib, and why she and Uncle
Algie were so adamant about "forcing magic out of
him." [PS, p. 93]  Neville goes on to say, "...you
should have seen their faces when I got in here - they
thought I might not be magic enough to come, you see."
[ibid]  Evidently, Gran Longbottom and Uncle Algie,
judging by that statement, did not have prior
knowledge.

Odile... 27 days!!!!!