The Good Slytherin

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 84990

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
>  I'm
> trying to figure out where I found the specific reference to 
Theodore
> (whse name I know I'm not inventing) and why I think that he, rather
> than Blaise, is the "stringy Slytherin boy."

It was at the scene after the interview in the Quibbler came out. 
Theodore Nott was talking with Malfoy and company, because their 
fathers were named as Death Eaters. Theodor's first name was 
mentioned and he was described as "weedy" which is similar 
to "stringy". Also, I read on the Lexicon-Forum an interesting 
theory, that describing the Thestral boy as "stringy" is a direct 
hint for him being Theodore Nott. JKR loves wordplays and therefore 
she used "Stringy Knot (Nott)". I don't know if this was 
intentionally by JKR, but I sure believe this theory currently.

> OTOH, I Harry knows
> Theodore's name, it does seem odd that JKR wouldn't use it in the
> thestral scene. 

Harry learned the name later. The fact that he didn't recognize Nott 
as the Thestral-boy is the only problem I have with this theory. 
However,Harry really doesn't pay much attention for other people. He 
didn't even know Susan Bones, with whom he had Herbology for five 
years. And he didn't recognize the Thestral boy, with whom he had 
CoMC for three years and probably Potions for five years. Therefore I 
have no problem to imagine that Harry just forgot that the Thestral 
boy was Nott (if it was Nott, of course). 

By the way, I am way more interested in Theodore Nott. I care as much 
about Blasie Zabini than I care about Rose Zeller from Hufflepuff 
(and that means, not at all). Nott however, is the son of a Death 
Eather, in Harry's year, but he is never around Malfoy, Crabbe and 
Goyle, except in the Quibbler scene. So I am really interested to 
learn more about him.

Hickengruendler