Bones, and Diggory

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No: HPFGUIDX 83116

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "evil_sushi2003" <
malibu_barbieblonde at h...> wrote:
> Sorry if this has been said before.
> 
> I was just musing over the fact that we see a lot of the Bones's in 
> OotP.
> 
> 
> We first see Madame Bones at Harry's hearing, we are then
introduced 
> to Susan Bones. Both exert an interest in Harry's patronus.
> We later see Susan again, and we gain the knowlegde that her
parents 
> were killed by DEs.
> 
> What I was wondering was why did JK feel the need to put in this 
> information about the Bones in? Could they be involved with the 
> Order?, or if they aren't, then wouldn't their absense be suspect?
> 

D.G.:  IMO I don't think that the surviving members of the Bones
family are in 
the new OoP.  They are mentioned quite a bit in Book 5, so IMO if
they had 
been in the Order JKR would have mentioned it.  They _are_ seen as
sort of 
non-OoP allies though.  On p 123 (US version)  Tonks says "Amelia
bones is 
okay Harry.  She's fair, she'll hear you out"    This is an
indication that Madame 
Bones is well respected and open minded.  
(IMO Neville's Gran would also fall into this catagory. (I personally
don't buy 
the Neville's gran is evil theories, I think she's just
formitiable:0) ) p219 US 
version Neville says "My gran says that's rubbish.  She says it's the
Daily 
Prophrt that's going downhill, not Dumbledore.  She's cancelled our 
subscription. We believe Harry. . . . My gran's always said
You-Know-Who 
would come back one day.  She says if Dumbledore says he's back, he's 
back")



> This is also appliable to the Diggorys. As Cedric was killed by
DEs, 
> wouldn't his parents join in with the defense against Voldy?


D.G.: I don't see the absence of the Bones or the Diggorys from the
OoP as 
suspicious at all.  At the beginning of the book the OoP was a secret 
organization, which if the ministry found out about would cost many
of the 
members at least their jobs.  So I think that the membership was kept 
relatively exclusive in order to ensure the members' safety.  Plus
since it was 
risky to join, it is understandable that members would only recruit
new 
members who they knew would be willing to take the risk.  And while
they saw 
the Bones as sympethizers, they may not have been sure the Bones'
were 
willing to take that risk.  Like I said, this does not mean that
there were not  like 
minded, they just didn't belong to the Order.  Just as the WW is not
divided 
into DE and good people, nor is it divided into OoP members and
people 
who beileved the Daily Prophet (though it may have seemed that way).

                     -D.G.