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196、弗洛林·福斯科 & 威利·威德辛

　　【弗洛林·福斯科（Florean Fortescue）】
　　出生年月不详，弗洛林冷饮店老板。
　　1993年，他曾为住在破釜酒吧的哈利提供免费冰激凌并帮他完成魔法史作业（就是关于14世纪女巫被烧那篇）。

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　　弗洛林·福斯科，对角巷冰淇淋店的店主，是一段幽灵情节（没有最终出现在书中的情节）的主角。在《阿兹卡班的囚徒》中，哈利遇见了他，并发现弗洛林了解许多关于中世纪巫师的知识。在那之后，哈利发现一位霍格沃茨前任校长就叫做德克斯特·福斯科（Dexter Fortescue）。

　　罗琳的想法：
　　弗洛林是德克斯特的一位后人，我最初将弗洛林设计为在哈利寻找圣器时为他提供线索的人物，这就是为什么我在很早的地方就让他们熟识。在那时，我设想历史知识渊博的弗洛林也许会知道零星关于老魔杖和拉文克劳冠冕的信息，这些信息从他那令人尊敬的先人那里在整个福斯科家族中流传下来。当我的写作逐渐进行到这些信息将会变得十分必要的地方时，我让弗洛林被绑架了，计划在之后让哈利和他的朋友发现或者解救他。
　　问题在于，当写到死亡圣器的核心剧情时，我最终决定菲尼亚斯·奈杰勒斯·布拉克作为传递线索的人物会更加令人满意。弗洛林关于冠冕的信息也变得多余，因为我可以借格雷夫人之口将所有需要的信息传递给读者。总而言之，我似乎没有什么理由就让他被绑架并被杀死了。他当然不是第一个因为知道的太多（或者太少）而被伏地魔杀死的巫师，但他是唯一一个令我感到内疚的，因为这实际上都是我的错。

　　【威利·威德辛（Willy Widdershins）】
　　一个喜欢捉弄麻瓜的巫师，出现在原著第5册。
　　他曾在贝斯纳绿地制造了多起麻瓜厕所回涌事件，其中有一次魔咒出了问题，厕所发生爆炸，他自己在一片废墟中昏迷不醒。他在被捕时受了重伤，全身包裹着绷带。他答应帮魔法部监视哈利，向乌姆里奇和福吉报告了哈利他们在猪头酒吧集会的事情，因此被免于起诉。但是，威利因为出售咬人的门把手，并让两个麻瓜被咬掉手指而再次被捕。

　　Florean Fortescue
By J.K. Rowling

Florean Fortescue, owner of an ice-cream parlour in Diagon Alley, is the subject of a ghost plot (a narrative that never made it into the final books). Harry meets him in Prisoner of Azkaban, where he finds out that Florean knows a lot about medieval wizards. Later, Harry discovers that an ex-headmaster of Hogwarts was called Dexter Fortescue.
J.K. Rowling's thoughts
Florean is a descendant of Dexter, and I originally planned Florean to be the conduit for clues that I needed to give Harry during his quest for the Hallows, which is why I established an acquaintance fairly early on. At this stage, I imagined the historically-minded Florean might have a smattering of information on matters as diverse as the Elder Wand and the diadem of Ravenclaw, the information having been passed down in the Fortescue family from their august ancestor. As I worked my way nearer to the point where such information would become necessary, I caused Florean to be kidnapped, intending him to be found or rescued by Harry and his friends.
The problem was that when I came to write the key parts of Deathly Hallows I decided that Phineas Nigellus Black was a much more satisfactory means of conveying clues. Florean's information on the diadem also felt redundant, as I could give the reader everything he or she needed by interviewing the Grey Lady. All in all, I seemed to have had him kidnapped and killed for no reason. He is not the first wizard whom Voldemort murdered because he knew too much (or too little), but he is the only one I feel guilty about, because it was all my fault.