New wizard of the month on JKR website

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 171370

Alla wrote:

> This month features Godric.
> 
> Godric Gryffindor
> Medieval (precise dates unknown)
> One of the four famous Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and 
> Wizardry, Godric Gryffindor was the most accomplished dueller of his 
> time, an enlightened fighter against Muggle-discrimination and the 
> first owner of the celebrated Sorting Hat.
<snip>

Carol responds:

Rather belatedly returning to this thread:

I had expected Rowena Ravenclaw to be this month's Wizard of the Month
and was surprised to see Godric Gryffindor, whom I had expected to be
the last of the four. I also wondered why the Four Founders sequence
began in May (with Helga Hufflepuff) instead of April, which would
have given us April: HH; May: Salazar Slytherin; June (RR); and July
(Harry's month, complete with ruby birthstone to match the
ruby-studded Sword of Gryffindor): GG.

It occurs to me that maybe JKR didn't want to show Rowena Ravenclaw on
her website just yet because Rowena will be holding the Ravenclaw
Horcrux (as HH was holding the cup and SS was wearing that overlarge
locket, which BTW ought to be gold, not silver, IIRC). So whether
she's holding the wand that ends up in Ollivander's window or the
tiara that ends up in the RoR (or something else altogether), she'll
appear with the "something from Ravenclaw" that JKR doesn't want us to
know about yet.

Unfortunately, if this theory is correct, it could mean that the Sword
of Gryffindor is a Horcrux. I don't think that's the case--DD says
that the Sword is safe, Harry used it to kill the Basilisk, which I
don't think he could do if it were a Horcrux, and I think the spell
that LV cast after the failed DADA interview was the DADA curse. OTOH,
I suppose the Horcruxes could be "deathly hallows" against which Harry
is protected by the, erm, "undeathly hallow"--the Sword of Gryffindor,
which already indirectly aided him in destroying the diary Horcrux
(though Fawkes, not the Sword, saved him from the Basilisk's venom).

Carol, who ran across a reference to *rubies* protecting against
Basilisks at http://www.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/SRM/symbol.htm when she
was researching the properties of rue and wonders what the magical
properties of GG's sword may be