Susan Bones

***The Power of Seven***

* Harry Potter (soul-bonded husband)
* Ginny Weasley (co-wife)
* Hermione Granger (co-wife)
* Luna Lovegood (co-wife)
* Demelza Robins (co-wife)
* Katie Bell (co-wife)
* Fleur Delacour (co-wife)
* Victoire (bonus daughter)

***The Power of Seven***

* Harry Potter (soul-bonded)

**Susan Bones** is a canonical witch and Hogwarts student in the same year as Harry. She was sorted into Hufflepuff and was a member of Dumbledore's Army.

## Canonical information

Main article: **Susan Bones** at *The Harry Potter Wiki*
Susan's paternal grandparents, uncle, aunt (by marriage) and cousins all died in the First Wizarding War, and her parents are never mentioned in canon, so in fanfiction she is often presented as having grown up with her aunt Amelia Bones, head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. However, there does not seem to be any actual canonical support for the assumption that her parents are dead as well.

Based on Rowling's original list of forty Hogwarts students, Susan is a half-blood; which ancestor(s) is a muggle is, however, not known. (Her paternal grandparents are known to have been magical, but they may have been muggle-born.)

Susan's appearance is not described in the books, beyond wearing her hair in a long plait down her back, and in the movies she is portrayed by two different actresses: in the first two, she has red hair similar to that of Ron Weasley, but in the last two she is blonde.

## Non-canonical information

### *A Godfather's Promise*

Main article: Susan Bones in A Godfather's Promise
Here, Susan is described as having dark red hair, almost crimson, of a shade that Harry notes is similar to what his mother had. She is also said to be the top Hufflepuff student in her year, as well as the most endowed girl. Her eyes are said to be grey. She is further described as kind, positive and cheerful, with a smile for most everyone, even the older students hitting on or outright harassing her. She confides that she "really likes" Harry being "forceful" with her, and grows sad when Fleur Delacour publicly shows interest in him; it turns out she has had a crush on him since an incident in their second year when he saved her from Draco Malfoy and his "goons". The fact that she is *also* attracted to Fleur (and a number of other girls) doesn't make anything easier. She goes to the 1994 Yule ball with Oliver Rivers, a choice based primarily on the fact that neither of them is interested in the other.

She is the heiress to the House of Bones, but due to the patriarchal structures of Magical Britain won't be able to fully use the title unless she marries and has a son. Harry, meanwhile, is the heir to both House Potter and House Black and will need to find a wife (or *wives*) who can marry into them, which she as an heiress can't do; she would at best be a third wife, or a consort. Daphne Greengrass is in a similar position, and also interested in Harry; during the ball they come to talk and reach an... understanding. According to Daphne, this is not uncommon among the highborn families since their marriages so seldom are based on love; most of the pure-blood Ladies "can't stand their husbands" and once they've produced the necessary heir much prefer to take their pleasure with one another instead.

According to Harry, her strong point in magic is healing.

### *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*

In this story Susan is explicitly said to be the daughter, rather than niece, of Edgar Bones and the ward of Amelia. Her family is part of a longstanding political alliance founded by Charlus Potter, and she has grown up socializing with most of the children of the other allied families (Hannah Abbott, Terry Boot, Daphne Greengrass, Neville Longbottom, Luna Lovegood, Ernie Macmillan and Padma and Parvati Patil) except of course Harry Potter.

### *The Power of Seven*

In the Spring of 1997 Susan joins a group of witches aiming to create soul bonds with Harry in order to remove the horcrux without killing him; the others are Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Demelza Robins, Katie Bell and, eventually, Fleur Delacour. Being the heir and only living member of the Ancient and Noble House of Bones, she becomes their expert on pure-blood traditions and politics, as well as, later, their main liaison with the Ministry; she also opens up Bones Manor for them all to live in over the summer since the place has been rather lonely since the death of her aunt. After the final battle is won, Susan goes back to Hogwarts for her final year of school, after which she finds work in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, and on the first anniversary of the battle they all marry Harry.

### Minor appearances

* In *The Code*, Anthony Goldstein asks her for a Valentine's Day date by arranging "an elaborate scavenger hunt" throughout the entire castle in which she is supposed to slowly piece together clues to who her suitor is; as far as Draco Malfoy can tell, Susan figures it out more or less immediately – because "no one else would have the patience to stage such an elaborate plot" – but she still goes through the whole thing and, in the end, agrees to the date.

## References

1. ↑ "World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling," *South West News Service*, 8 July 2000 - "Hogwarts just serves Britain and Ireland."
2. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 5
3. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 11
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 7
5. ↑ *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 9
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 *A Godfather's Promise*, Chapter 11
7. ↑ *Harry Potter: Neko's Mate*, Chapter 29
8. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 19 Explicit scene!
9. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 20
10. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 62
11. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 44
12. ↑ *The Power of Seven*, Chapter 81
13. ↑ *The Code, Chapter 19*