New Clue - (Celtic ?) Graveyard at Hogwarts

a_reader2003 carolynwhite2 at aol.com
Sun May 30 09:59:34 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 99777

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> 
wrote:
>>But as long as we're speculating as to who else might be in a 
Hogwarts graveyard, I'll throw in Harry's paternal grandparents as a
possibility, too.  We know they died sometime between James'
completion of Hogwarts and James' death, which was only a few years. 
In the World Bookday chat, JKR said we'd find out a bit more about
Harry's grandparents, although they wouldn't be very important.
> 

Carolyn:
I am surprised no one has picked up on the other interesting tidbit 
in the article - that Hogwarts is apparently located on a Celtic site 
(see my post 99679). I have dug around in the Lexicon, but can't find 
any confirmation of this, maybe someone knows if it is in any of 
JKR's past interviews ?

Anyway, when I saw it, I went to search for Celtic sites in Britain 
to see if it had any implications, and I found this link:

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/arthur.html

This article examines the origins of the Arthur legend, Celtic 
mythology generally, and non-Welsh Celtic sites. If the Potter family 
(male line) are in some way connected with Godric Gryffindor, as is 
often supposed, and Godric is representative of a Celtic hero, it 
could be logical that the Potter grandparents, and James & Lily, are 
buried at Hogwarts if it is an ancient Celtic burial ground. (Ie, 
they don't need to have been buried in Wales, *if* that is/was where 
Godric's Hollow is located - and perhaps it is actually somewhere 
near Hogwarts ?).

Pursuing the Celtic link, is the 'sleeping dragon' in the school 
crest in fact a metaphor for a sleeping hero of old (in the 
graveyard), that it would be really unwise to tickle, and who will 
arise again in some time of crisis?







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