Colin Creevy
Hannah
hannahmarder at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Sep 13 16:35:09 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 112859
I apologise if this has been posted on before (couldn't find any),
but I really wanted to get people's opinions on a pet theory of
mine. It concerns Colin Creevy (and his brother) and the possible
role of this character in later books.
I think there is a lot more to Colin than meets the eye. He is
mentioned in all of the books from CoS onwards, even when he doesn't
have much part to play in the story. It's like JKR wants us to
remember that he's there. She even gives him a little brother (a
sort of Colin#2) in GoF. Whatever narrative functions Colin's
character might perform, it doesn't seem necessary to have two
similar characters just to tell Harry he's great and stare at things
open-mouthed with wonder.
There's also precedent set in the stories so far for seemingly
pathetic characters to surprise us and play important parts. Look
at Ginny - at first she seems to be Ron's dear, shy little sister,
then she turns out to have been opening the chamber of secrets all
along (and has become quite feisty in books 4 and 5). Neville's
another example - his character has become a lot deeper than an
anxious bumbler who keeps losing his toad.
>From the few descriptions we've had of Peter Pettigrew, he reminds
me of Colin. He has same tendency towards near-obsessive hero
worship, and everyone dismisses him as harmless and a bit stupid. I
don't know if Colin will end up acting as Peter did (a traitor), but
it does suggest that Colin-ish characters can do surprising things.
I also believe that Colin Creevy may be a half-blood. Although he
is attacked by the Slytherin monster, I think one muggle parent
would be enough to justify a basilisk attack in the eyes of the pure-
blood fanatics.
Colin seems to come from a close family, yet he only mentions his
Dad, not his Mum. He says he is sending pictures to his Dad, and
even volunteers that he is muggle milkman. Why isn't he including
his Mum in this? Even the first time I read this, I took it that his
Mum was dead/ had left them. And missing parents in Potterverse
always flag up warning signs. She could well have been a witch.
My supporting evidence for this is the existence of wizard!Dennis.
A wizard child born to two muggle parents is fairly unusual. Lily's
sister (Petunia) is not magical, neither is Hermione's younger
sister (from JKR website/ chats), so it doesn't seem that siblings
of muggle born wizards are usually magical too. But here are the
Creevys with two wizard sons. This would be (be my reasoning),
extremely unusual for two muggles, but normal for a witch and a
muggle.
So... could Colin Creevy be the half blood prince? I know it sounds
far fetched, but then, so does Ron's pet rat turning out to be
disguised dark wizard, and *that* happened. I can just imagine JKR
going 'ha! and you thought he was just a mousy sycophant with a
passion for photography.' Even if he's not, I still think he's
going to be important somehow.
I would love to hear what people think about this, and apologise
again if I've just unwittingly paraphrased someone else's theory.
Hannah
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