Florian Fortescue

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 181787

Carol:
> Anyone have any ideas regarding what happened to Florian Fortescue 
and why? snip
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. 

Potioncat:
Oh, I wish I'd posted earlier, now I've read the next post and the 
interview it's linked to.

But, I'll give you my opinion anyway. I thought Fortescue was an 
expert on Wizarding history, not just witch burnings. And he seems to 
have an ancestor who was a headmaster at Hogwarts. I suspected LV 
wanted him because of his knowledge of Wizarding artefacts. (And from 
the interview, it appears I was right.)

We don't learn this in canon, but his disappearance does give us a 
taste of the war. Here's a pleasant character we had met, who is now 
gone. No idea where or how. Just gone. For me it was more moving than 
some of the off side mentioning that a student had been taken home, 
or had lost a relative.