Lots of Notts

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

Sparked by Ginger Snape's observation that the Nott in the Death 
Eater circle was too old to have a kid Harry and Neville's age. I 
promised some people (who probably aren't the least interested) that 
I would write an OT post about the Nott family in MY Potterverse.

Because in MY Potterverse (do I have to keep saying that?), the Nott 
in the Death Eater circle is 135 years old at that time, and DOES 
have a kid Harry and Neville's age. Muggle men can father children 
when in their 70s, especially if they have a new young wife, and 
wizarding folk live longer and age slower (when adult) than Muggles, 
and therefore I don't find it implausible that he had another child 
when he was 120 years old. (Based on Dumbledore being 150, I figure 
wizarding 135 is old enough to be 'stooped' and not too old to still 
be working).

I made the Nott kid in Harry's year (i.e. 15 at the end of GoF) a 
Slytherin (but not evil) girl named Regina. THEN QTTA was pubblished 
and one of the names on it's check-out sheet was T. Nott. If only I 
had known, I could have named her Treasure instead of Regina ... So 
the T. Nott has to be in an older year: *two* Notts at Hogwarts. 

Meanwhile, I had already built backstory in which Regina has a nephew 
her same age, specifically Vincent Crabbe, whose mother is the former 
Centennia (vinCENT - CENTennia, get it?) Nott, whose mother named her 
Centennia in honor of being born in her father's 100th year. Because 
Nellie (the mother) is a sweet, family-loving, good-keeping doll of 
a Hufflepuff almost 80 years younger than her husband... Nott married 
her because she makes her husband comfortable and didn't particularly 
want (more) children, but agreed to *one* (Tenny) because Nellie 
insisted... 

Regina came along for the same reason Tenny was married off: 
Voldemort or Lucius Malfoy having discovered the prophecy of a 
great wizard who would be born on Lammas of 1980 ordered all his 
Death Eater followers to go and procreate in an attempt to get the 
special child born into his power ... 

So who is T. Nott? Nott's *grandson* -- Reggie has a grand-nephew 
OLDER than she is! Nott must have had some kind of first marriage all 
those years before Nellie was even born, and a son from it. Here is 
where I partly agree with THIRD NOTT RUBBER DUCKY -- this middle Nott 
took the fall to protect his father -- confessed not only to his own 
Death Eating crimes but to putting his father under Imperius -- 
because some adult male of the family has to survive to make sure the 
children are raised to protect the family name -- however, I have no 
idea if he got out again to attack the Longbottoms.

Similarly, in MY Potterverse, when Department of Magical Law 
Enforcement got the goods on Augustus Rookwood, he protected his 
family lineage by confessing to having put his (uncanonical) son 
under Imperius...