Random facts about the Weasleys

[Laurel Carmer]

No: HPFGUIDX 98800

Mimi:  On her new website, JKR states, "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."
> 
> Ok, I just reread chapter one of Sorcerer's Stone (I have the 
> American edition), and can't see where anything is that I could note 
> indicating that Molly Prewett Weasley lost close family members to 
> Voldemort. True, OoP, tells us about Gideon and Fabian Prewett when 
> we are introduced to the first members of the Order, but not in 
> chapter one, and I refuse to believe that JKR could commit a double 
> flint on her website, by citing not only the wrong chapter, but the 
> wrong book as well. Or could she? 

****I think she just misspoke herself.  They're not mentioned in the 
first chapter, but in the fourth -- when Hagrid is telling Harry about 
his parents.

Laurel