RAB / Amelia Bones and her murder

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No: HPFGUIDX 152844

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, grich277080 at ... wrote:
>
> ~aussie~:
> >> Amelia Bones' death was a piece in a much bigger picture. One 
that 
> included Hepizbah Smith and James Potter as having pure blood 
lines 
> from the founders of Hogwarts.
> 
> His search for other wizarding heirs may be a motive for 
kidnapping 
> of Florean Fortescue (HBP 6), provider of ice-cream sundaes and  
> ADVICE ABOUT MEDIEVAL WITCHCRAFT to Harry (POA 4). He may be 
reknown 
> a history expert and easier to grab than Professor Binns (not only 
> because he is in Hogwarts, but also because it is hard to grab a 
> ghost). (Lexicon also says a Fortescue was a past Headmaster of 
> Hogwarts - OOP 27)
> 
> I think LV is not on a quest that started from Tom Riddle, but a 
Dark 
> Wizard quest inherited through the ages. I have some rough ideas 
it 
> may extend back as far as Salazar Slytherin himself. (The Basilisk 
> may not have been the only thing of SS locked in the Chamber of 
> Secrets for centuries, known only in rumours to even Professor 
Binns.)
> 
> It was the 3 other founders unity in accepting Muggle-born to 
study 
> at Hogwarts that drove Slytherin away. With those heirs gone, 
> Salazar's heir can try to reclaim the school for pure bloods. <<
> 
> 
> AnnR:
> This is the first time I have heard this theory re the founders 
and 
> Amelia Bones' death.  Is there any canon to say that Amelia was a 
> Ravenclaw?  Is Hepzibah Smith a Hufflepuff, I can't remember, or 
is 
> it the other way around?  I know James was Gryffindor.  I like the 
> idea of the dark wizard theory being passed through the ages 
before 
> Tom Riddle.  Does anyone else think the same as aussie?
>
~aussie~
Hepzibah had the Hufflepuff heirlooms which would go to the direct 
heir. That is also why her family searched in vain for it later.

Amelia - I'll get back to you on that one. Didn't the neice have her 
whole family targetted in James' era? (and movie goers saw the 
director's daughter play Susan Bones in first 2 movies)
~aussie~