Pottermore stuff

[oryx_leucoryx]

I looked up the spoilers site, and it looks like they took down all the direct quotes from Pottermore after having being warned about copyright infringement. I suggest we take care. Summarizing or retelling new content should be OK, but no direct quotes.

Also, looks like GOF stuff is up. Can anyone tell us if there are any tidbits?

Comments

[madderbrad.livejournal.com]

If a wizard mates with a Muggle woman, but doesn't (withing the WW) marry her/claime her offspring, the resulting child is classed as a Muggleborn. (Dean Thomas).

I'm not sure you have enough cases to establish that. Dean's father ran off, didn't claim Dean, sure, but he didn't return to the wizarding world either. No-one knew the identity of Dean's father:

“Muggle-born, eh?” asked the first man.

“Not sure ,” said Dean. “My dad left my mum when I was a kid. I’ve got no
proof he was a wizard, though.”

Are there other cases of wizards siring children with muggles but not claiming them?

[hwyla.livejournal.com]

This is ages later to answer this, however, this is something JKR spoke of on her original webpage (not Pottermore).

Dean's father never actually left them. He was killed by Voldy when he refused to join him. They just never knew it. Presumably, he had hidden his marriage so well from the wizarding world that no one knew to inform them.

Fortunately, that also meant the connection was well enough hidden that Voldy didn't know about their existence to go after them.