Comment author: 75th 03 May 2012 08:53:09PM 1 point [-]

TIL that Daphne Greengrass and Tracey Davis exist in canon, and were not created out of whole cloth by Eliezer for Methods.

Comment author: redbayes 05 May 2012 09:08:29AM 1 point [-]

You might find this site helpful to keep track of canon characters: http://familytrees.genopro.com/harry-potter/

I recommend EY to visit it too if possible, since he hasn't read the last few books, this might bring him to date with new developments.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 04 May 2012 01:42:39AM *  1 point [-]

Pretty much all first-year student characters of HPMoR with significant roles existed in canon, at least as names (most of their personalities were not detailed in canon) -- that most definitely includes the entirety of SPHEW, and other important-to-HPMoR figures like Blaise Zabini, and even less important figures like Kevin Entwhistle.

I was just wondering whether the specific making of Greengrass into a "Noble and Most Ancient House" was decided by Eliezer because JKR married off her Draco to a Greengrass family member. Or if it was just a coincidence.

edited to add: TIL I learned what TIL means.

Comment author: redbayes 05 May 2012 09:04:30AM 3 points [-]

The "I learned" is redundant, unless you mean that you learned that you just learned what TIL means, in which case you could have prefaced it with a 'that'.

I kid, I kid.