Out On A Limb About Florence

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 105965

Neri  said:

"Florence can't be a mistake. She's too much singled, smack in the 
middle of DD's memories, and what with the anonymous kisser and the 
hex. That's just too many intriguing details to be a mistake. 
Florence certainly might be a red herring. But then, almost any 
possible clue in HP might be a red herring, and that have never 
stopped us from theorizing."


Cathy:

 I think the importance of this scene is not Florence but who she was kissing.  The boy who hexed Bertha Jorkins.  I don't have any speculation of who he is. I am nearly as bad at math as JKR and while Sirius (I think) said Bertha was a few years ahead of the Marauders at Hogwarts, I don't know who would be in that same age bracket Fudge, Crouch?  I think Lucius Malfoy is too old, isn't he?  He was 41 in 1995, he would be about 6 years older than the Marauders, I think.  I agree with what someone said a few days ago that Snape and the Marauders would be too young and be off Bertha's 16-year-old radar, so it would be someone closer to her age, so 5th - 7th year.  Sturgis Podmore I think is about the right age but how does he work in?  I just don't know, and it is only intuition that makes me think it is the person whose name is not mentioned that is more important to the story.  Like 'the next man' in the ring of DE's at the Graveyard.



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