Marietta Edgecomb

[Bob Alberti]

No: HPFGUIDX 134462

Anybody have any idea if there's a particular meaning to Marietta
Edgecomb's name or character?  I have to admit that after OotP I had
thought her race was run, an incidental character with a somewhat
funny comeuppance.  Her re-appearance in HBP could have just been a
little chuckle at her expense, or confirmation of Hermione's
exceptional powers.  But on the other hand if I wanted to turn
somebody into a thoroughly annoyed enemy, sticking them with a face
full of zits reading "SNEAK" for more than a year is a good way to
accomplish it.  

So I'm wondering if she, like Lockhart, might make a surprising
reappearance in book 7.

I haven't found any canon information either way to suggest her
origins or possible fate.  However, while digging round QQQ, I came
across this:

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/1999/0999-familyeducation-abel.htm

"In Marietta, Georgia, an elementary school principal has removed the
Potter series from a fifth grade classroom, questioning their
appropriateness."

Rowling doesn't strike me as quite so vindictive, but does anyone know
if there is a connection to the events in Marietta, Georgia?

http://albatross.org/images/20050716Potter/00047.jpg

(Other pix at http://albatross.org/journal/archives/000952.html)

Thanks for any thoughts on Marietta's canon origins, or whether we
might see her again...

-Bob Alberti
http://albatross.org