Various responses

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No: HPFGUIDX 176344

Misc responses - these have little in common other than having been in
my Drafts folder, largely because they were individually too small to
warrant wasting a message on.

> Magpie:
> Andromeda Black--We know she married a Muggle-born, but she does not 
> appear in the book except for one scene where she looks haughty, so 
> remains "Slytherin not appearing in this book."

Random832:
Also, unknown house in canon.

Bruce Alan Wilson:
> Personally, though, I hope she does what Katharine Kurtz does in opening
> her universe to other writers.  Kurtz insists that any fanfiction
> commercially published be vetted by her as consistent with canon

Random832:
JKR doesn't vet even her own works as 'consistent with canon', why
should she care if fanfic is? (and, all joking aside, this basically
shuts out AU-type stories)

justcarol67:
> As to why Mad-eye and Harry (or maybe someone who could walk more
> silently than Mad-eye, say. Lupin, didn't just walk a good distance
> from 4 Privet Drive and then Apparate

Why apparate at all? Just walk directly to 12GP. Or to the Tonks'. Or
catch a train.
-- 
Random832