The "Curse" of Macbeth

[nkafkafi]

> (snipped very interesting post which mentions that the play was 
written 
> for King James and that you can not say the M word.)
> 
> Tonks:
> I wonder now just how much of this was in JKR's mind when she wrote 
HP. 
> Is this why Harry's father is James?  Why we can't say the V word?
> Just makes you wonder.

Neri:
There might be another connection between HP with Macbeth. Since it 
is canon that Hogwarts School is about 1000 years old, there are good 
chances that it was established under Macbeth's reign (I believe he 
died in 1057). Moreover, if the HBP is (as some of us suspect) Godric 
Gryffindor, then he may be a Prince because he was the son of one of 
those kings (and a witch mother, naturally). Probably not Macbeth 
himself, but maybe Duncan, although I personally favor the Saxon king 
Harold, since he was the last of his line. 

Of course, the sons of kings at that time were not called princes, 
and kingship wasn't even strictly hereditary, but Shakespeare didn't 
let such trivia bother him, and neither should we. 


Neri