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Robert Hawking was a student who began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry between 1987 and 1989. By the 1993-1994 school year, he had been made a Prefect, and was tasked with patrolling areas of the school off limits to students.

Etymology

Robert traces beck to Germanic name Hrodebert,which means 'bright fame'.This could relate to him being a Prefect.

Hawking could mean 'person with a hawk-like manner', which he displays, as his job is to partol areas.

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. To have been a Prefect in the 1993-1994 school year, he would have had to have been in his fifth year or up by that point, thus putting his possible range of birth dates between 1 September, 1975 and 31 August, 1978.
  2. World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling
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