Florian Fortescue

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181782

Anyone have any ideas regarding what happened to Florian Fortescue and
why? Unlike Ollivander, he seems to have put up a fight since his shop
was in a shambles. He doesn't seem to have been held captive at the
Malfoys (whose house, whether they like it or not, seems to have
become LV's new HQ) like Ollivander and Luna, so he must have been
killed. All I can recall about him is that he was an expert on
medieval witch-burning and a fan of Harry's, who served him free
choconut sundaes from his ice cream shop. Was he a Muggle-born, which
might explain his interest in witch-burning (even though Bathilda
Bagshot tells us in "A History of Magic" that witches and wizards
could survive the flames)? I can't see Voldemort having any use for
his expertise either as an ice cream maker or an authority on that
particular topic.

Carol, wondering why JKR included him in the story unless it's just to
show that Diagon Alley in HBP isn't what it used to be in earlier books