[HPforGrownups] Re: Flitwick for HBP

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 108417

"dcgmck" <dolis5657 at yahoo.com> asked:

>Your reasons are thought-provoking.  Are we all convinced that the
>four founders were indeed all human?  Is there actually canonical
>evidence to that effect, or is that an assumption under which we have
>all been operating because of contemporary biases?
>

As far as I know, all we have is the four names.  Are there portraits 
(magical or otherwise) of any of the founders anywhere in Hogwarts?  The 
names sound human to me; the house-elves we've met don't have last names, 
nor do the centaurs or (pureblooded) giants.  On the other hand, the  people 
of mixed ancestry we've met have human-sounding names because they are part 
of human families -- Rubeus Hagrid, Olympe Maxime, Fleur and Gabrielle 
Delacour.

I think that's just the kind of thing JKR might do -- let us assume the 
Founders were all human, even though she never actually *said* so.  And the 
lack of portraits is suspicious.



Janet Anderson

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