Headless Podmore was: Has anyone noticed this?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 93971

> Geoff:
> I must admit I hadn't noticed the Sir Patrick's name - I really must 
> read every sentence carefully. Mark you, it's a tpical Jo Rowling 
> ploy. One name is in Book 2, the other in Book 5, so we've forgotten 
> our headless friend by then! <snip>
> 
> "TRESPASS AT MINISTRY
> 
> Sturgis Podmore, 38, of number two Laburnham Gardens, Clapham, has 
> appeared in front of the Wizengamot charged with trespass and 
> attempted robbery.......Podmore, who refused to speak in his own
defence, was convicted on both charges and sentenced to six months in
Azkaban."
>

Carol:
I remembered Moody commenting on how young Sturgis Podmore looks in
the photograph of the old Order members that he shows to Harry, but
I'd forgotten that his exact age was mentioned in the Daily Prophet
article you quoted. If he's 38 at that point in OoP, he must be only a
year or two older than MWPP and Snape and would have gone to Hogwarts
with them. (Snape was 35-36 in GoF, so he and the survivng Marauders
would be 36-37 in OoP.) Maybe Sturgis will be a source of information
about MWPP in their school days, as well as revealing to us the
conditions in post-Dementor Azkaban?

Regarding his (presumed) relationship to "Sir Properly Decapitated
Podmore," I'm not sure that the ghostly Podmore is a Hogwarts ghost,
but if he is, he must have encountered the schoolboy Sturgis at some
point and possibly revealed their relationship. (Maybe Sturgis will
die and come back as a ghost?)

Carol, who is betting that Sturgis is yet another Gryffindor based on
his refusal to testify on his own behalf