Another Flint? (Was: When?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 119212


charme wrote:
Carol earlier:
> > What point would there be in rewriting the story now to give them
a different heritage? I don't think we need an explanation for their
size other than Dennis's age and their genetic inheritance from, say,
a very short Muggle mother.
> 
> charme:
> 
> If you'd be so kind, please explain what you mean by this paragraph?
 Who is rewriting the story to give them a different heritage? There
might be more to the Creevy's heritage which hasn't yet been revealed,
and why wouldn't we need to see it if it's part of the story plot? 
JKR refers to the Creevey's size quite a bit, the same as Hagrid (who
we now know is half giant) as well as other particulars about other
characters (Luna and her "eyes", Harry's scar, Snape's greasy hair,
Madame Maxime's size etc) which may also reveal more about their
history and genealogy.  Why is theorizing or discussing this any
different?

Carol again:
First my apologies for being unclear. I certainly didn't mean that
*you* were rewriting the story, and I'd be the last person to
criticize theorizing or speculation on any point (though I confess
there are topics I avoid because I find them a bit too speculative for
my taste).

I meant that JKR, via her narrator and the various characters,
established Colin creevey and the other victims of the basilisk as
Muggleborns in CoS. *She* would have to rewrite the story to give them
a different heritage if she thought it was important to do so, but
she'd have to go to a lot of trouble to explain how the basilisk and
Tom (or Ginny) got it wrong.

I agree that a lot of attention has been focused on Dennis Creevey's
size (not to mention that he established in my mind, at least, that
the Giant Squid is a "good guy"), and I'm sure we'll see more of both
Creevey brothers. I'm also sure that Dennis Creevey's size will play a
fairly important role. (We'll also see more of Dean Thomas's skill
with calligraphy and drawing; otherwise, why establish it in the
narrative?) But, IMO, there's no need to change what we've been told
about their heritage to do so. After all, we've yet to be told why
Flitwick and Dedalus Diggle are tiny. Maybe, like Hagrid, Professor
Flitwick will be revealed to have a nonhuman parent. But the Creeveys
have been established as Muggleborns, and I think it would be more
trouble than it's worth *to JKR* to explain how not only the Creeveys
themselves but Ginny and Tom and apparently McGonagall and Dumbledore
were wrong about victims being Muggleborns.

Carol, who also wonders about Luna's eyes and thinks she might be
related to Ollivander (which wouldn't require undoing a previously
established heritage)