Theo Nott--Where?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 101260

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lliannanshe" 
<lliannanshe at c...> wrote:

Lee :
> > Where is Theodore Nott introduced?  Is it in OOTP or one of Lady 
> Rowling's
> > notes?

Lliannanshe:
> Theodore Nott's name was first mentioned in OOP chapter 24, 25 or 
26 
> there about. (I can't remember the name of the chapter) The very 
> first mention of Nott is SS "The Sorting Hat" just mentions he was 
> sorted but doesn't tell us which house.
> Pleased to help

Geoff:

The full canon references for the two instances mentioned are:

'There weren't many people left now.
"Moon"... "Nott"... "Parkinson"... then a pair of twin girls, "Patil" 
and "Patil" then "Perks, Sally-Anne"... and then, at last - "Potter, 
Harry!"'

(PS "The Sorting Hat" p.90 UK edition)

Interestingly, as Lliannanshe remarked, Nott's connection with 
Slytherin isn't emphasised in PS.

'If anything more was needed to complete Harry's happiness, it was
the reaction he got from Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle. He saw them with
their heads together later that afternoon in the library; they were
with a weedy-looking boy Hermione whispered was called Theodore Nott.
They looked round at Harry as he browsed the shelves for the book he
needed on Partial Vanishment: Goyle cracked his knuckles
threateningly and Malfoy whispered something undoubtedly malevolent
to Crabbe.'

(OOTP "Seen and Unforeseen" [Chapter 26] p.514 UK edition)

Nott is not seen here as being malevolent in the same way as M,C & G, 
perhaps emphasising him as the "thinking man's Slytherin"!