Origins of the Founders (British Geography input needed) (No OOP at all)

[Ali]

No: HPFGUIDX 67137

Pip!Squeak the birthday girl wrote:-

 Umm.. many may be unaware that Cornwall, which quite definitely has 
 moors, was the last bastion of Celtic England. The Cornish are 
 Celts. Cornish, Gaelic, Irish and Welsh (and Breton) are members of 
 the same language group.  It may be that the Four Founders don't 
 represent modern England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as much as 
 they represent Celt, Dane, Anglo-Saxon and Scot - the four peoples 
 who made up pre-Norman Britain. 

I like this solution much better than than the country split. IIRC, 
posters have previously suggested that Godric is a Cornish name. I 
would consequently place Godric's Hollow in Cornwall, and  it is 
then at least possible to see why Hagrid flew over Bristol when 
taking baby Harry from Godric's Hollow to Little Whinging - even if 
it is not the most direct route.

Placing Godric's Hollow in Cornwall has another advantage to me. If 
Ottery St Catchpole is near Ottery St Mary in Devon as I like to 
assume, then it places the Weasley's home relatively near to the 
Potter's home (certainly making them near neighbours by Wizarding 
standards anyway. 

If Wizarding families have stayed in the same general vicinity as 
their ancestors, then perhaps generations of Weasleys have supported 
descendants of Gryffindor throughout the last Millenium. I accept 
that this is stretching the known facts, and it also flies in the 
face of "our choices" being important. But, JKR does seem to have 
generations of families following similar ideals as we have seen 
with the Blacks and Malfoys.There are black sheep in those families 
(pun intended) - ie family members like Sirius who have gone against 
the grain so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to have 
generations of Weasleys upholding the Gryffindor ideal, and then the 
odd exception such as Percy going in a different direction.

Ali