[HPforGrownups] My very own personal HBP theory

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 111549

 Meidbh write:
>Britain 1000 years ago was a feudal society, you would expect school
>founders to either be nobles or very powerful in the church. If the
>WW reflects our world (which it does to some extent) I think it is
>fair to assume that people with the resources to become great
>wizards and construct a castle would have been nobility in their
>world. Add GGs ruby studded sword into the equation and I would put
>all my galleons on GG being at the very least Sir GG. With nobility
>being notorious for inbreeding royal blood would not be unexpected.
>In fact it would be quite expected.

Well, you'd have expected _Muggle_ school founders to be nobility or clergy,
but this is the WW!

My surmise is that the fall of the Roman Empire actually had little effect
on the WW: some wizarding families may well have moved out into the
countryside and taken over estates out there (suitably enchanted so that
when the barbarians came by looting and pillaging, they'd just have gone
straight past) while others would have stayed in what was left of the
cities. But that the WW was dominated by its ancient families, whose
stability and lineage had also given them the opportunity to become
sufficiently wealthy to be independent.

So that the Founders (and indeed the other wizarding aristocrats) would have
regarded titles from nasty little Muggle barbarian monarchs as very much
beneath their contempt: they just didn't need them.

Though I do agree with the theory that the HBP is a legend rather than a
person.

But JKR alone knows all

Cheers

Ffred

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