[HPforGrownups] Dean is Gary?

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 104137

> If my memory is correct, I read on a post several days ago that JKR
> said that Dean's name really is Gary?  Is this true?  If so, would
> someone point me in the right direction to read about it?
>
> Thanks!
> Julie

All the information is on her website at http://www.jkrowling.co.uk. No,
Dean's real isn't Gary, Gary is the name he was given in one of the earlier
drafts of the story. He does however have a more complicated background than
the story discloses, because Rowling said she didn't find an opportunity to
insert it into the books. He is a half-blood rather than a muggle-born, and
Rowling lists this information as taken out of her initial draft of book 2.

Alina.