The new questions, and Peverell

[deborahhbbrd]

No: HPFGUIDX 148655

"Steve" (bboyminn) rightly points out the Gaunt connection with King
Edward III; however I've always been under the impression that,
because Ed Three was such a remarkably, er, active and energetic
person, just about everyone of English ancestry is descended from him,
on one side of the blanket or another. And most of us just rise
heroically above our ancestral shame and get on with life. But the
occasional nutters will on discovering this connection imagine
themselves to be the Rightful King or indeed Queen, and become rather
boring about it.

I could imagine something analogous in the Potterverse Gaunt family.
Not just superior to other wizarding families on account of the
Slytherin connection, but - by gum! - born to rule all those unruly
Muggles as well. And here we are in a hovel, my dears, but if we had
our rights ... (rant could continue for months and probably often did).

Deborah, whistling 'Flower of Scotland' under her breath and rather
admiring John of Gaunt, at least in Shakespeare