The Cemetery at Hogwarts

[hogsheadbarmaid]

No: HPFGUIDX 123501



> Barmaid:
>  
> Just to be clear I am not trying to start a conversation about the 
> movies or about what is different between the movies and the books 
> or what JKR allowed or did not allow in the movies.  That would not 
> be appropriate to this board.  
> 
> I AM trying to start a conversation about what people believe this 
> piece of new canon information about the presence of a graveyard at 
> Hogwarts could mean for the story.  Where could it be?  What role 
> will it play in the story?  Why is it significant?
> 
> Tayla:
> 
> If there is one thing that I am discovering while reading the books 
> for probably the 6th time, because I keep finding stuff that I 
> missed is that when it comes to JKR, even the little things 
matter.  
> If she is hiding something, she will interrupt herself or not 
> complete the sentence.  She set the stage for that one in the very 
> first book.  After going back and reading it again, Harry was 
> sitting on the lawn and watched an owl flying by.  Doesn't seem 
very 
> important, does it?  However, you can speculate that THAT owl was 
> the very owl that was calling Dumbledore away from Hogwarts.  This 
> makes a simple description relevant.  If she says in an interview 
> that there is a cemetary on the grounds, you can bet it is going to 
> come up somewhere.  Perhaps it has to do with the Bloody Baron, or 
> any other of the Hogwarts ghosts?

Barmaid again:

There is no question in my mind, after seeing the interview, that the 
cemetery will play an important role at some point in the remaining 
story.  Here are a couple of things I would speculate could be 
involved... some are mutually exclusive...

1)  James and Lilly are buried there.  Seeing their graves is an 
emotionally significant event for Harry.

2)  Only people that work at Hogwarts are buried there... so someone, 
a teacher, a headmaster, a Filch... will die and be buried there.

3)  It is an ancient and long forgotten place.  The founders and 
maybe a couple other people are buried there.  The trio stumbles upon 
it while on some adventure.  Information gained by finding these 
graves changes some basic assumptions about... I don't know... maybe 
the houses, or the various divisions in the WW, or relations between 
the WW and the non-magic world and forces some sort of realignment.

Other ideas???