Not All Weasley's are Weasley's

[grahadh]

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Snow wrote:
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> 
> JKR said in her web site under Extra stuff about the Weasley's:
> Before her marriage Mrs. Weasley was Molly Prewett. As you will note 
> from chapter one, Philosopher's Stone, she has lost close family 
> members to Voldemort.
> I have been unable to find such referencing in the Sorcerer's Stone 
> version and would very much like to know what is quoted in 
> Philosopher's Stone version about this statement.

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> I have a feeling the twins are going to learn that they are Prewetts 
> in book six and Molly's fear of them attempting to avenge their 
> fathers death will become reality. 
> 


now me:
The reference to the Prewetts is actually in Chapter 3 of SS.  Hagrid tells 
Harry that Voldemort killed some of best witches and wizards of the age and 
then goes on to list: "The McKinnons, the Bones, the Prewetts"  I don't thhink 
they are referenced other than that, though.

After reading that bit of info on the website, and then rereading OoP, I began 
to wonder if the Weasly children know they were related to G & F Prewett also.  
They are mentioned by Moody when he shows Harry the origional OoP 
picture and when the Death Eaters escaped from Azkaban we're told that 
Dolohov's picture has a caption saying that he was convicted of murdering G 
& F Prewett.  Ron is sitting right there at the table when they discover this 
news, but seems to react to the news as a whole and not to any bit in 
particular.  This is in contrast to Neville and Susan Bones, who either react to 
the news or to people's reactions to them.  So either the Weasleys don't know 
they are related to the Prewetts, or are choosing to not to talk about it.  I'm not 
sure what the is reason either way.

It could be, like you said, that Molly is keeping that bit of information secret 
from the entire family, to keep the twins unaware of their heritage.  But I still 
wonder about how Molly could keep her family history secret from the rest of 
her family.  She would have to cut off all ties to her extended family.  I guess 
they never went to visit Granny and Grandad Prewett (maybe they weren't 
around anyway, we don't know).  You'd think that the kids would at least know 
their mother's maiden name, though.  There has to be a good reason for it, I'm 
very curious to know what it is, and I think you're right, that we will probably 
find out more about the Prewetts in the next two books.

-Dhyana