JK Rowling pens a Harry Potter prequel / War of Roses/Holmes?Figg/Walpurga

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Okay, first about the prequel. JKR says she felt like an addict having 
a relapse...
I think she'll be like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (although allegedly he 
did it for the money) who HAD to resurrect Sherlock Holmes after 
killing him at the Reichenbach (spelling?) Falls...
She'll have to do a prequel..and I'd LOVE the story of Mrs. Figg, 
particularly as a young woman, and what about Mr. Figg - was he a 
wizard, was he killed by Lord Voldemort?...I'd like Tales of the 
Original Order of the Phoenix....
Just found out that Sirius' mother's name was Walpurga (hmmm, the men 
in the family were all stars or constellations - Orion, Sirius, 
Regulus...but she had a Germanic name! And is that a reference to 
Walpurga's night...wasn't that in Faust? 

OKAY, the WAR of the ROSES...one of my favorite topics.

The whole DEAL is that Edward III had too many sons!
Edward the Black Prince, whose son Richard became Richard II 
Lionel, Duke of Clarence, second son
John of Gaunt (who married Blanche, off Lancaster, and who himself 
became Duke of Lancaster).
Edmund, Earl of Cambridge, one of the progenitors of the Yorkist 
dynasties...
and Thomas of Woodstock

After Edward III, it goes

Richard II, grandson of Edward III through Edward the Black Prince

Henry IV, (who overthrew Richard II), who was the son of John of Gaunt, 
Duke of Lancaster, by Blanche of Lancaster.

Henry V, son of Henry IV (or Agincourt, and Shakespearian fame)

Henry VI, son of Henry V

Here's where it gets complicated.

The Duke of York overthrew Henry VI - Richard, the third duke of York 
was the great-grandson of Edmund of Langley, fourth son of Edward III 
through his father, and the grandson of Lionel, second son of Edward II 
through his mother Anne de Mortimer. His mother's claim was more 
important, even though he was the duke of "York." He died before 
attaining the throne.
HIS SON, was the next king

Edward IV, Duke of York, was the next king succeeded by his brother 
Richard III (a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse) who may have 
murdered the two princes in the tower (Edward IV's two sons).

And even more complicated...the next king was Henry VII.

HIS claim to the throne was that 1) his father, Owen Tudor, married the 
widow of Henry IV... and 2) he was the great grandson of John of Gaunt 
(go back up to Edward III) through his mistress and later wife, 
Katherine Swynford...

Also, interesting, he married the eldest daughter of Edward IV...
(combining the red rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York into a 
red and white Tudor Rose)...and so really, Henry VIII was as much 
Plantagenet, (Yorkist) as any king of England.

Also, very interesting, is that all kinds of monarchs had as their 
ancestors John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress/wife 
Katharine Swynford...the Tudors, Edward IV/Richard III, and the kings 
of Scotland and Great Britain who succeeded Elizabeth I.

Susan