uncle algy???

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 103579

> Gina (I think) wrote:
>Didn't someone say that the character Augustus in the US version is
>Algernon in the UK version? Could that be uncle algy?
>
Dave responded: 
> You mean Neville's uncle could be a DE -- Rookwood!?
> 
> And if it's really *Algernon* Rookwood, are there also a couple of
> dangerous DE's named Gwendolyn and Cecily??
> 
> Actually, I'm starting to wonder if any of the DE's might be sort
> of twisted references... I seem to recall in GoF a mention of a DE
> Travers who killed a woman named McKenna. -- In our world,
> (Bill) Travers  and (Virginia) McKenna were a happily married acting
> couple!


Carol:
Actually, it was the McKinnons, plural. One of them was Marlene. No
Virginia. Whether the McKinnons were a married couple or related in
some other way, I don't know, but I doubt that there's a connection
with your RL McKennas. (Cute Wilde allusion, BTW.)

As for Great Uncle Algie being a DE, I doubt it very much given Gran's
support of Dumbledore and the fate of Algie's nephew Frank and niece
by marriage Alice. I think that the American editor wanted to avoid
confusion between Algernon Longbottom and Algernon Rookwood and
suggested (sensibly) that Rookwood's first name be changed to Augustus.

Carol, humbly apologizing for being perennially behind on posting and
trying desperately to catch up