Flitwick dead?

[elady25]

No: HPFGUIDX 127299


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> 
wrote:
> 
> Thursday, April 7, 2005, 7:29:43 PM, Tonks wrote:
> 
> T> Maybe something to do with the fact that he is part 
> T> goblin.
> 
> Um... He *is*??  Is this Canon?  And if so, why didn't Umbridge
> persecute *him*?
> 
> -- 
> Dave

Hi Dave,

JKR just updated her Rumours and FAQs section.  Included in the 
scraps she threw us doggies here begging at the table was a bit of 
Flitwick's back story.  

"Flitwick has a background that I now realise will never see its way 
into the books because it is not relevant to the plot.  He is human 
but with a dash of goblin ancestry--something like a great, great, 
great grandfather.  This is only interesting in as much as it gives 
him a perhaps unexpected empathy for people like Hagrid who are, in 
Death Eater parlance, half-breeds."

So yes, we can now accept this tidbit as canon.

imamommy