Hogwarts Questions

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 170951

> Si:
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> Didn't Ollivander go missing just before HBP?
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JW:
Ollivander is gone.  Nobody knows the story.  Was he Kidnapped?  
Perhaps the DL and DE wanted to remove his talents from the WW.  Or 
did he flee?  There was "no sign of a struggle."

Also gone is Fortescue, owner of the Ice Cream Parlor.  He might have 
been dragged off - we are not given details, but the store may have 
been ransacked.  HP met Fortescue early in PoA, after running away 
from the Dursleys. 

"Harry could sit in the bright sunshine outside Fortescue's Ice Cream 
Parlor, finishing all his homework with occasional help from 
Fortescue himself, who, apart from knowing a great deal about 
medieval witch burnings, gave Harry free sundaes every half an hour."

Ollivander had a wand in a place of honor in his shop's window, and 
there is speculation about the significance of that wand.  What did 
Fortescue have? Hot fudge sauce embedded with powerful old magic?  A 
Hogwart founder's ice cream scoop? Or is his knowledge of history 
significant?