Hogwarts First Years

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

We've just been given (via the shiny new website) a list of everybody in Harry's class at Hogwarts. Let's discuss it! Here is the list copied out and cross-checked with the canon universe using HP Lexicon—canon characters in purple, new characters in blue, missing book characters in green.


Gryffindors: Lavender Brown, Seamus Finnegan, Neville Longbottom, Parvati Patil, Ron Weasley, and Katrina Bundy,.
Missing: Hermione Granger, Dean Thomas.


Hufflepuffs: Ernie Macmillan, Susan Bones, Zacharias Smith, Megan Jones, Wayne Hopkins, Bobby Stebbins, John Summers, Eloise Midgen, and Hannah Abbott.
Missing: Justin Finch-Fletchley.


Ravenclaws: Padma Patil, Morag MacDougal, Mandy Brocklehurst, Su Li, Michael Corner, Sarah Fawcett, Steven Capper, Belinda Dunstan, and Linus Moon. Missing: Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Lisa Turpin, Stephen Cornfoot.


Slytherins: Millicent Bulstrode, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Daphne Greengrass, Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson, Blaise Zabini, Sally-Anne Perks, and of course Harry Marvolo.
Missing: Tracey Davis.



Am I missing anything? Where do you think the new names come from? Where do you think the missing characters are right now?

Edit: Turns out that there are no new students in Harry's year. All the ones that I hadn't found previously were mentioned in canon but not affiliated with a specific house, which is why I missed them the first time. (The fact that Bund vs. Bundy mattered made me go check again).

Edit 2: I'm putting known half-bloods in bold, just for the sake of keeping track and because I'm curious what the ratio of halfbloods to purebloods is in this group.

Comments

[alt_moderator]

Katrina Bundy, not Bund (I mistyped the first time)

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Got it.

My theory about the blue names

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

So where do these new people come from? At first I thought that they might be new children born to people who died or were incarcerated in the book universe, like Bellatrix's daughter and Neville's younger sister. But then I realized that since these children are around Harry's age, they'd all have been born before we went AU. So these are children that were, at least, born in the book universe as well. So why didn't we see them at Hogwarts?

With Katrina Bundy, she may actually have been there and never named, because there was something about an unnamed Gryffindor girl at HP Lexicon.

With Stephen Capper, could it be Stephen Cornfoot, but maybe with a different last name? Maybe if his parents got divorced or remarried soon after he was born, they would have changed his last name. Or if he is a half-blood, maybe his name was changed to that of his wizarding parent rather than his Muggle parent.

There are two others. Assuming they weren't actually there in the books but unnamed, they could either be children who in canon were casualties of the Death Eater round-up after Voldemort's defeat (like Neville's parents were), or they could be related to some of the wizards who immigrated to England when Voldemort took power (like Pascoal (http://alt-bellatrix.livejournal.com/1566.html?thread=5662#t5662)). Or they could be homeschooled in the books by overprotective parents who didn't want them to be exposed to Dumbledore's ideas or to attending school with Muggleborns.

Re: My theory about the blue names

[anemonerose.livejournal.com]

There was a Moon mentioned briefly during the Sorting in SS/PS (page 121 in my US paperback edition). There was also a Moon listed on JKR's class list for the kids in Harry's year. So they probably just picked any first name, since the poor kid was never given one in canon.

Re: My theory about the blue names

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've just realized that pretty much everybody I thought was new is actually listen in the Other Students (House Not Determined) (http://www.hp-lexicon.org/hogwarts/hogwarts_students.html) section at HP Lexicon, so I guess they're not immigrants or previous war casualties after all.

Also there goes my Stephen Cornfoot > Stephen Capper theory. Alas!

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

One effect of the AU is that the Gryffindors are more outnumbered than in canon (6 vs 9, 10 in other Houses) -- even with the addition of Miss Bundy.

[brimtoast.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is a pretty big difference. But it makes sense that if people are sorted by their personalities, the distribution wouldn't come out totally even, so I like that we have tiny group of Gryffindors for this year. I'm sure that it evens out somewhat across the seven years of students, and their common room is just as full as anyone else's.

Neville did mention that the Gryffindor boys are particularly close friends, and I'd bet that the smallness of their group contributes to that.