Every Tom, Dick and Harry...

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 117595


Kim wrote:
> <snip> Outside of JKR bringing in a connection to real living royals, I 
> wonder what kind of royalty of its own the WW might have.  Were the 
> four Hogwarts founders from some royal wizarding lineage?  Slytherin 
> was definitely a racist and a snob, but was he also royal? (not that 
> I'm suggesting the real royals are racists and snobs)   What about 
> the other three founders?  So far in the HP books, I don't think 
> there's been a reference to any royalty either in the WW past or 
> present, but I may be mistaken.  But it makes total sense for there 
> to have been royal wizards once upon a time at least. 
>
Carol notes:
I like to think that Godric Gryffindor might have been a half-blood
prince, if not *the* HPB. He was a wizard, but his jewel-encrusted
sword appears to be a Muggle weapon--or an enchanted Muggle artifact,
at any rate. He probably did live at a time when Muggle kings had
wizard advisors, when the anti-wizard prejudice Slytherin was so upset
about had barely touched the British Isles. (Someone complained that
Godric and Rowena were Saxon names--they ought to have been
Celtic--but maybe they reflect that half-blood heritage. Gryffindor
isn't all that far from Gruffydd, the name of several Welsh kings.)
I'm also wondering if GG was a contemporary of Merlin. Does anyone
have the dates for Merlin on the Famous Wizard cards?

Carol, noting that even Lucius Malfoy uses "Merlin's beard!" as some
sort of mild oath