Merlin's Beard!

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 126553


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, imamommy at s... wrote:
> 
> imamommy:
> 
> Wait, did you mean half human, or half-blood wizard?  Did you mean 
> his father was a wizard and his mother was a nun?  Disregarded 
that vow of chastity, eh?  Well, if he's a half-blood wizard, and 
his  chocolate frog card says he was the Prince of Enchantment, 
that's some of the most tangible evidence we've come across,(Snip)


Tonks now:

Well I didn't want to tell the whole dirty little story. But I ment 
half human. We presume that his mother who was a nun was raped by an 
an incubus (male demon).  Encarta Encyclopedia says: "Merlin was 
conceived when his father, an incubus (male demon) lies with his 
mother, a nun at Carmarthen in southwestern Wales, while she is 
asleep." 

He gets his magical abilities from his father because his father was 
not human, but a demon.  Merlin was baptised as a Christian. Of 
course we do not know if any of this is true of if he ever really 
lived, but this is what some of the legions say about him. He was 
also the mentor to King Arthur.

Now Rowlings is getting some ideas from the King Arthur tales. Here 
is another bit from Encarta: "According to tradition, Merlin 
arranges for the conception of Arthur when King Uther Pendragon of 
Britain falls in love with Ygraine, a married woman. Merlin 
transforms Uther into the likeness of Ygraine's husband, so that he 
may lie with her. Arthur is then conceived. After Arthur is born, 
Merlin takes him and gives him to a man named Hector to be raised as 
a commoner. After Uther dies, Merlin notifies the barons of Britain 
that God has established a test to determine the successor to the 
throne. In front of a cathedral has appeared a large stone topped 
with an anvil, in which a sword is embedded. The rightful king will 
be able to withdraw the sword. Only Arthur can do so, and he becomes 
king."

So according to this I think that Arthur is a half-blood. His mother 
could be a commoner and his father the King. But note the sword and 
the same thing in CS when Harry is the one that can draw the sword 
of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat. 

I still don't think that Merlin is the half-blood prince. The half-
blood prince will have to be a Christ symbol and that leaves Merlin 
out.  And I don't think that she is going to use any more of King 
Arthur's tale either. The Goblet of Fire and the Holy Grail did have 
some things in common, however.

Tonks_op