Silver blood

Milz absinthe at mad.scientist.com
Sat Sep 8 00:01:25 UTC 2001


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., dfrankiswork at n... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., catherine at c... wrote:
> The Bloody Baron in no way looks 
> > menacing enough - and why isn't the blood silvery - coloured?
> 
> I've always wondered - how do they know it's blood?  I'm not 
> surprised the movie has changed this: nobody who didn't already 
know 
> would understand without a little cameo in which the characters 
> discuss it.
> 


I posted this on the main list a long time ago. I was reading up on 
legends of UK castles and came across William de Soulis, the owner of 
the Hermitage Castle in Scotland. According to legend, de Soulis was 
heavily involved in black magic (dark wizard perhaps?) and, along 
with his henchman, Robin Redcap, did some particularly nasty things. 
Anyhow, he plotted against Robert the Bruce and was executed. The 
legend goes that he was boiled in a vat of lead, or that he was 
wrapped in a sheet of lead, thrown into a hot brass cauldron and 
boiled.

Perhaps Rowling patterned the Bloody Baron on de Soulis? De Soulis' 
title was Baron. Since nobody has the nerve to ask the Bloody Baron 
why he is bloody then maybe it's not blood but splotches of molten 
lead?





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