New characters in HBP

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 119191


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cat_kind" <cat_kind at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> We have the following possible new characters in HBP:
> 
> A) The HBP: possibly new, almost certainly a character.
> 
> B) Felix Felicis: certainly new, possibly a character.
> 
> C) The lion-man (described on JKR's website some time back):
> certainly new and certainly a character.

Hickengruendler:

I am sure this is either Godric Gryffindor or someone closely related 
to him. I don't think it is an accident that he looks like a lion. 
 
> Possibly also:
> D) Godric Griffindor:  Conceivably a character, as he first came up 
> in Book 2, so fits the description of Possible Title for Book Two, 
> if more of his story had been given there. 
> 
> E) Inhabitant of Spinners End:  The main theory seems to be it's a 
> place, so it doesn't seem too much of a stretch for it to have an 
> owner. Okay so this is maybe far-fetched. 
> 
> F) New teacher of DADA (or Potions if Snape gets DADA)
> 
> Surely some of these coincide?
> 
> D can't be C, as the lion-man wears glasses, which wouldn't have 
> been invented in GG's time.

Hickengruendler:

Quite a lot wasn't invented at that time, but that didn't stop 
Salazar Slytherin to hide the entrance to the Chamber Of Secrets in a 
modern bathroom.
  
> B can't really be E because Felix turns up much later than Spinners 
> End.

Hickengruendler:

Umbridge was introduced in chapter 8 of OotP, yet the chapter named 
after her was chapter 12. Lockhart also apperaed before the chapter 
that was named after him. Of course, the gap wasn't nearly as big as 
it were, if Felic would be the owner of Spinner's End. But still, 
maybe he has a short cameo appereance in the beginning and chapter 12 
is, where he is really introduced.
 
> Someone 
> we already know (Lupin's family? Luna's family) lives at Spinners 
> End.

Hickengruendler:
To me, Spinner's End suggests a more noble house or place (although I 
admit, I don't really know, why. Just an impression). Therefore I 
associate it with the more royal-like wizarding families. If it 
belongs to a family we already know, than I think either to the 
Longbottoms or the Malfoys.