[HPforGrownups] Re: Descendents of the Peverells, WAS: Questi on: Cadmus Peverell & Voldermort

[James Sharman]

No: HPFGUIDX 174709

> Finwitch:
> 
> Well, yes. But Very distant - more than that of the Founders,
> considering that Founders are part of known history, if also faded to
> legend in part; Peverell brothers are MYTH, or even older: a fairy tale.
> 
> Taylor:
> 
> Harry and Hermione see Ignotus Peverell's headstone, so he must not be
> myth.

I think "myth" in this sense can mean not necessarily that the person 
never existed, but that he's not seriously believed to have existed, or 
that the story (itself divorced of any names) is not seriously believed 
to have happened in any meaningful way.



James:

 

It's worth point out here that we have 3 wizarding surnames associated with
Tom riddle. Gaunt, Peverell and Slitherin. We know that both Harry and Tom
are decedents of the Peverell family. But that does not preclude Tom being
the only living descendant of Slitherin. I can easily see the slitherin line
being very narrow with just one or two members in each generation, finally
dying out when there is just a daughter who marries into the suitably pure
blood Gaunt line.

 

There doesn't seem to be any cannon on this, but certainly read the Peverell
brothers as being fairly recent (after the Hogwarts founders) but presumably
a fair few centuries back. Id be interested to see what JKR has to say about
this.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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