Talk:Potter family

Should these be separate articles? If not, why not? -- hike395 05:52, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

My opinion: they should. That's how they started out, as well. Who would ever link to "Relatives of Harry Potter"? -- Someone else 05:59, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)~

I prefer it this way. I don't think we need a thousand-and-one mini-articles on various aspects of the Harry Potter universe. I don't object to the amount of content, of course, but I think that the majority of this material can be consolidated down. If you want to link to a specific relative, you can always link through the redirect pages or link directly to a section of this article. Justin Bacon 08:38, 18 Aug 2003 (UTC)

I lean towards having a single Characters in the Harry Potter Series article with each character having a heading you can create a # link to. See The Wheel of Time for an example. Phil 13:43, Nov 13, 2003 (UTC)

If we're going to have separate articles for Harry Potter characters (i.e. Arabella Figg), than it seems like Lily and James Potter are significant enough to have their own articles. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 14:15, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

Family Tree

I have just created a family tree. How can you put an image into an article?

Misleading Edit Summary

Sorry, I started out just doing some minor spring-cleaning, and it all snowballed, and I forgot to update the edit summary when I'd finished ;-/ --Phil | Talk 12:43, Apr 19, 2004 (UTC)

James Potter's house?

Where is it explicitly stated that James was in Gryffindor? I don't remember this being in any of the books. If no one can find factual evidence I'm going to remove it. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 12:30, Jun 8, 2004 (UTC)

J. K. Rowling said James was in Gryffindor in an interview.

Can someone provide evidence of this? It's annoying that Rowling adds to canon in "official" interviews. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 14:30, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)

JKR stated that all four "Marauders" were in Gryffindor during the World Book Day Chat on March 4 2004 (transcript at the Leaky Cauldron), although an error in the transcript leaves Peter Pettigrew's status in doubt. As for your annoyance, it's the nature of the beast I'm afraid and we all just have to put up with it :-) --Phil | Talk 15:12, Jun 28, 2004 (UTC)

Heir of Gryffindor?

Someone added the following to the article under James Potter:

James was an heir of Godric Gryffindor.

I am not aware of any evidence to this effect, much twittering in discussion groups to the contrary. Albus Dumbledore says that "only a true Gryffindor" (my emphasis) could have pulled the sword out of the hat in Book Two, but this is not the same thing at all. The only "heir" mentioned to date in the story is that of Salazar Slytherin and we know who that is. If anyone can substantiate the above assertion, then re-insert it with an explanation! --Phil | Talk 15:53, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't remember anything to that effect in the book. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 16:15, Jun 11, 2004 (UTC)

Dudley's birthday

Where did you find Dudley Dursley's birthday? The date is not given in the books, which only say that he is a few weeks older than Harry. --slg 14:32, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)