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[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190132

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Carol responds:
> 
> I don't remember a Bagshot in the HP books. Can you refresh my memory? (I do remember a Bagshot Row in the Tolkien books, tied in with a lot of bag, sack, and cul de sac puns, including the patrician/plebeian name Sackville-Baggins, but nothing of the sort in HP.)

Geoff:
Bathilda Bagshot was the renowned author of "A History of Magic", a standard
Hogwarts textbook and was presumably killed when Voldemort used her body 
or a snake Transfigured into a form of it to attack and try to capture Harry at 
Godric's Hollow.
(DH "Bathilda's Secret" p.278 et seq. UK edition)