AU (was Re: Hedwig's death (Was: 23, Malfoy Manor/What a ...

[Beatrice23]

No: HPFGUIDX 183563

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at ... wrote:
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> In a message dated 7/4/2008 2:56:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
> willsonkmom at ... writes:
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> <One of the best moments reading DH with my son was just after we  
> <discovered Colin Creevey had died. "Wasn't he Muggleborn?" I  
asked.
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> <My son thought a moment, "Hey, he shouldn't have been at  
Hogwarts! 
> <Just, think, if J. K. Rowling had a better memory, Colin  would 
still 
> <be alive today."
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> Actually IIRC Colin wasn't attending Hogwarts during the school  
year.  He 
> arrived with the others to fight at the end.  Or at least  that's 
what I always 
> figured had happened.
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> Melissa
> 
Beatrice:  While it is possible that Colin arrived with other 
members of the DA, I think that there are also two possibilities:

1.  That Colin was attending school - McGonnagall actually addresses 
him and Peakes in the Great Hall during the evac and tells them both 
to leave.  Which sounds to me like he was among the students and 
came down from the tower to hear the announcements.  In this case it 
might be a filk UNLESS....

2.  Colin only ever mentions his father when he discusses his home 
life.  I think that he indicates that his father is a postman or a 
milkman?  There is no mention of a mother, so his mother may have 
been a witch and either died or left Colin and Dennis (I think it is 
important to mention that there are two boys in the same family with 
magical abilities as it is unusual to have a muggleborn with magic 
powers, but to have TWO in the same house seems like either one 
parent is / was a witch or wizard or perhaps the father is a 
squibb).  At any rate there is probably enough room here to say that 
the Creeveys could have documented a wizarding parentage in some 
fashion...

Anyway it isn't a definitive response, but there is a possibility 
that it isn't a mistake just that JKR knows more of the back story 
here than is revealed in the novels.