[HPforGrownups] Gryffindor's sword

[Christine Maupin]

No: HPFGUIDX 173648

poetryfreedom <annbosco at rogers.com>  wrote:
>In case someone has the answers...
>How does the sword get back "into" the sorting hat if Griphook took it?
 >Who on earth is Fabian Prewett? (Harry's watch)

I have an assumption about your first question and an answer for your second.

I simply assumed that Gryffindor's magic ensures that a worthly Gryffindor has access to the sword in a moment of great need ... as Harry had accessed to it in the Chamber of Secrets.  (Yes, I know, Fawkes brought the hat and sword, and Harry demonstrated loyalty to Dumbledore as well as great need and worthiness -- but perhaps, it is loyalty to Hogwarts and the Wizarding World that is paramount.)  Even though my degree is in English and I made an academic career of literary analysis, I try not to over-analyze.  So, in a magical world, I accept that 'magic happens.'

As for Fabian Prewett, he is Molly's older brother and an original member of the Order of the Phoenix.  There's another brother whose name escapes me but I believe Mad Eye points them out to Harry in OOTP while showing him the photograph, telling Harry that they were both killed but went down fighting.  A friend has my book so I can't reference it exactly.  However, in SS Hagrid says to Harry regarding Voldemort:  "...an' he'd killed some o' the best witches an' wizards of the age -- the McKinnons, the Bones, the Prewetts..."  On her website (under Other Stuff), JKR explains, "Before her marriage Mrs. Weasley was Molly Prewett.  As you will note from chapter one, Philospher's Stone, she has lost close family members to Voldemort."  (I found Hagrid's quotation above in chapter four; I didn't find anything in chapter one though.)

Christy