Fools gold

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 121616


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jotwo2003" <jsummerill at s...> 
wrote:
> 
> As fans we spend a lot of time analysing anything that JKR says to 
> try and guess what will happen.  I've taken this one step further 
and 
> analysed something that was cut out to try and work out if this 
gives 
> any clues to what JKR has left in.
> 
> On JKR's web site she mentions that in an early version of the 
> killing of the Potters at Godric's Hollow, that Sirius was going to 
> meet a character called Pyrites, a servant of Voldemort, there.  Jo 
> correctly says that pyrites means fool's gold.

 
although JKR cut Pyrites, I 
> wonder whether she cut his role out completely or if she allocated 
it 
> to another character.  In the latter case, perhaps this is evidence 
> for the theory that a Death Eater accompanied Voldemort to Godric's 
> Hollow.  I'm open to suggestions about which Death Eater people 
think 
> this might be.


Perhaps "Pyrites" was a traitorous Auror (another word related to 
gold)...

  - VMV