[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 5161

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 111629

Meidbh wrote:
> Our prince is a Halfblood so his title could come from either the WW
> or Muggleworld. As I said in my previous post, I'm really not
> convinced that JKR would bring RW royalty into her world (though

"Arise, Sir Harold, said the Queen, her eyes lingering for a moment on his
scar"

No, I can't see it myself as an ending. I suspect that would be the day my
books were consigned to the charity shop!

> And as far as we know none of the old families, the purebloods,
> appear to be titled. Now. In fact other than our self proclaimed
> Lord VM there we've seen no contemporary titled WWfolk at all.

And I think that if there were any "titled" wizards around (who would have
given them those titles, I still wonder?), we would have seen them at
Hogwarts. The Hon. Draco Malfoy perhaps...

> Well, there appear to have been stronger links and similarities
> between Muggle society and the WW in the past, at least before the
> International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of 1692. And we do have
> evidence of titled magical folk in the past. We have Sir Cadogan, a
> portrait knight in armour and the ghost Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore
> of the Headless Hunt. Morgana le Fey, King Arthurs sorceress half
> sister, was Queen of Avalon. And of course, my personal favourite
> (<g>), Queen Maeve was a mediaeval Irish witch (ref: JKRs chocolate
> frog cards).

I would once again agree with you on that. All of the references are
mediaeval, (you could add the Bloody Baron to them) which could quite easily
mean that they were Muggleborns of the time. I think that before the
seperation of the two worlds was so strictly enforced, that there were far
more Muggleborn wizards and intermarriages, just because there was more
opportunity for them.

Cheers

Ffred

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