Random facts ... Weasleys- inconsistency or flint?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 99086

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:
> Jolene: 
> > > > Hagrid mentions "the McKinnons, the Bones, and the Prewetts"
> > > > in chapter four of SS, on page 56.  --Jolene


> > > Geoff:
> > > The reference for UK editions is
> > > (PS "The Keeper of the Keys" p.45 UK edition)


> Mimi:
> > I wonder if JKR will correct this (and the stockbroker/accountant 
> > bit) when she edits her page next.


> Annemehr:
> I never thought it was JKR's mistake so much as Ron's.  He said, "I
> think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never
> talk about him."  If they never talk about him, he could have gone 
> from an accountant just out of school to a stockbroker with a 
> Hogwarts-aged daughter without their ever knowing.  Ron didn't sound
> to sure about it, anyway.
> 
> Annemehr
> who doesn't know who the McKinnons might be, either

bboy_mn:

Also, keep in mind that we are comparing a portion of the published
book with a draft that was never integrated into the story; that is
never published, and therefore subject to change.

Note from JKR's website that Ron is one of something like three
characters in the whole series who kept the same last name from
beginning to end; beginning to end of the planning of the books. So,
it's possible that other Weasley brothers were not originally
Weasleys, but as JKR worked out the story and refind things a bit,
they were merged into one big happy family. 

Not stating that as a fact, just trying to illustrate how this
mysterious Weasley relative could, as Ron said, be an accountant in
Ron's mind, yet still be a stockbroker in the rough draft in which
that person orginally was intended to appear. We can't treat every
detail of a rough draft as absolute canon.

We have an apparent inconsistency, but not necessarily an mistake or a
flint.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn