JK Rowling mencionou certa vez em uma edição especial de Harry Potter da Newsnight que os Comensais da Morte eram originalmente chamados Cavaleiros de Walpurgis.
Jeremy Paxman: And these scraps of paper which you've filed elegantly in a carrier bag, they're plot ideas or...
JK Rowling: Well some of them are totally redundant now because its been written and I keep them out of sentimentality's sake, I suppose. But some of it has backstory in it like this - in here is the history of the Death Eaters and I don't know that I'll ever actually need it - but at some point - which were once called something different - they were called the Knights of Walpurgis. I don't know if I'll need it. But I like knowing it. I like to keep that sort of stuff on hand.
(Newsround; Full Transcipt of JK's OOTP Interview).
(18: 11)
Agora estou ciente da mitologia e das tradições ao redor noite de Walpurgis. Estou interessado em saber se a própria JK Rowling fez mais comentários sobre isso de alguma forma - seja através de um artigo da Pottermore ou de outra entrevista. Ela tem?
