Some canon related WOMBAT wonderings/ MORE questions

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 170263

 
> Alla:
> 
> And another question, where I found some answers to be especially 
> fascinating, if this is true.
> 
> 
> 5. Which of the following popular historical theories have now been
> proven to be TRUE?
> Choose the correct THREE
> a) The oldest building in diagon Alley is gringotts bank; the other
> shops grew up around it.
> b) Towards the end of his life Salazar Slytherin reconsiled with the
> other founders of Hogwarts School, and retuned to the castle to
> Die.
> c) The muggle 'war of the roses; began as a dispute between
> wizarding neighbors over a fanged geranium
> d) The second wife of Henry VIII, and Boleyn was accused by muggles
> of being a witch but was actually a squib.
> e) A secret task force of wizards and muggles hellped allies to
> victory in the second world war.
> f) The forbidden forest begain life as a wood planted and tended by
> a centaur herd.
> g) The great fire of London in 1666 was not, as muggles believe
> started by a blaze in a bakery in Pudding Lane, but by a young
> Welsh Green Dragon kept in the basement of a house next door.
> h) The sorting Hat of Hogwarts was stolen and substitute by a group
> of delinquent students in 1325. The were abouts of the real had
> remain unknown.
> i) upon his death in battle in 1762, goblin rebel Vargot was
> discovered to be a renegade house elf
> j) the location and name of Hogwarts were chosen by Rowena
> Ravenclaw who dreamed that a warty hog was leading her to the
> cliff by the lake.
> 
> 
> Alla:
> 
> Okay, okay, I proceeded with this one thinking that whatever is 
true 
> would be somehow related to what is about to happen in book 7.
> 
> I mean, wouldn't it be just like JKR to slip in this 
> totally "insignificant" information here?
> 
> Like Salasar Slytherin reconciled with others and returned to 
castle 
> to die. **Really?**
> 
> Does it mean that reconciliation of the houses will occur and 
> symbolic death / abandonment of what he stood for, but return to 
> friendship or something?
> 
> I also think that Rowena chose Hogwarts will be true as well and 
> third one, not sure.
> 
> GAH. Need this book now.
>

Hickengruendler:

Ah, our posts crossed. As I see, you wondered about the Slytherin one 
as well. Even though I do believe that house unity is a theme in book 
7, I still tend to think this rumour is wrong, because I suppose the 
Sorting Hat would have told us in OotP, that Slytherin returned. 
Similarly, I believe that the Sorting Hat really is the Sorting Hat 
and not a fake one, because Harry was able to pull the Sword of 
Gryffindor out of it.

Nonetheless, I do started to wonder after HBP (or better, after the 
interview with Emerson and Melissa, where Emerson guessed, that when 
the SOrting Hat speaks, it really came from the founders and JKR made 
a suspicious noise [suspcious according to the transcript] about 
this), that maybe the Founders, including Slytherin, are somehow 
entrapped in the Hat. Maybe due to a spell gone wrong or something, 
and they only get free, when the Houses reunite? Therefore maybe the 
one about Slytherin dieing at Hogwarts is true after all *g*. But I 
didn't put it as an answer. Neither did I chose the one with Rowena 
Ravenclaw and the Hog, even though I considered it as possible. 
Ravenclaw does have some of the most eccentric characters in his 
house after all, so maybe Rowena was a bit of a loon as well.