OK Dumbledore is Gryffindor's Heir.. Kowolski is Hufflepuff's.. Voldemort is Slytherin.. WHERE IS OUR RAVENCLAW??? ... (unless... is it.. pretty obvious? (It cant be (right? (no... ))))
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Does it though? It could also be just to notify Harry and gang about the significance of the sword and maybe get it to them, if that would have worked.
Though Scrimgeour claims he had no right to do so and that the sword belonged to the public/Hogwarts - of course possible explenations are general unawareness of the lineage or the fact that Harry, in turn, is not related to Dumbledore causing the sword as an important historical artifact only then in absence of a natural heir to revert to/be claimed by the state (though in that case it would have been easier for Dumbledore to bequeath the sword to Aberforth for safe keeping?); or Scrimgeour lying for whatever reason. And anyway, putting it on the will when it might have been obvious in no way would the ministry allow it to pass to Harry and with the sword having vanished at that point already (plannedly?) it was more of a shoutout to Harry that the sword is a crucial part of his quest, whether Dumbledore was a Gryffindor by blood or not.
sociologists prove that bearded people dont have long term relationships. beardless ones tend to have long term ones ... hence more chance of having kids.
Could McGonagall be an heir of Ravenclaw? (Quick refresher: Helena is Rowena Ravenclaw's only known child. She moved to Scotland after fleeing Hogwarts with the diadem only to be hunted and killed years later by the baron who was sent to retrieve her. He got mad when she didn't want to marry him, he kills her, and then guilty, so he kills himself) It takes a couple leaps but as y'all said, Rowena's family history is kinda missing. I don't think this is because Helena didn't have kids but that she would keep her life private and because she died before anyone knew. She hid the Diadem while she was alive, in an Albanian forest and I doubt that was because she didn't know a way to defend things magically or have an heir to pass it to. I suspect this is because Helena knew she would be hunted and that magic would only make finding her/it easier. On top of that, any heirs she left would have little chance with a target that big. (Sidebar: If Helena wasn't a ghost, the diadem would likely never be found. Also, Tom Riddle hiding it in the room of hidden things because he thought he was the only one clever enough to have found it is wildly dumb. Who hid all the other things Tom???? Terrible wedding planner) The first big issue is that McGonagall isn't a Ravenclaw but I think this actually helps her. McGonagall is one of the two true Hatstalls we know of and both of them were because the person's value structure was different than their ambitions. (Pettigrew valued courage but was more cunning and McGonagall believed in bravery and conviction but was brilliant beyond her years) I think this wasn't only because she is so wise but because she is the Ravenclaw heir. Ambitious Slytherins are only made stronger by the rivals they form. A Hufflepuff's loyalty only grows when their friends remain true. Ravenclaw's questions are answered when surrounded by scholars. And a Gryffindor's bravery is forged when they rally together. If you're right about Kowolski, I think he would have been a Hatstall too. The hat has two usually parallel priorities when sorting. It puts you where you'll strive and where your values are reflected. McGonagall might have been equally as strong if she had more scholars at her side but I think the hat eventually realized McGonagall would be driven further with people to protect and a cause to rally behind. (To our knowledge Hatstalls have a lot to do with the wishes of the person being sorted. Hermione, Neville, and Harry are the three longest sortings I can think of and we know that the decision was largely to do with their desired house. As far as why I think they're blood-related, largely because of her intelligence but also because what little we know little about the McGonagall family tree lines up perfectly with the Ravenclaw tree. We only know that one side of the McGonagall family is likely pure-blooded, the other side is muggles and both sides are Scottish. Helena ran from Hogwarts with the Diadem and hid in Scotland for presumably years if not decades. She ran to Scotland while still in school but in most depictions, she is at the youngest in her twenties, when she became the Grey Lady. That leaves enough of a gap to start a family. (Likely with a muggle. Not because we know Rowena's position on muggles but just if she did that would be most likely) When she is murdered by the baron, all chances of that family being on any wizard records are dashed. Now the only big gap I have is which side is the Ravenclaw side and there's a problem. I don't know. Both are plausible. A powerful witch mom dying at the start of the 11th century with one of the biggest family names in existence. I wouldn't be deeply shocked if her line were powerful and eventually became blood purists who have no one to point to at one of the most crucial times for blood purists. They likely didn't know who that line came from. On the other hand, Helena likely married a muggle man and in a time in her life where she would likely avoid magic. It wouldn't be terribly shocking if their line either didn't realize they were magic for most of it or had some generations of squibs. Almost certainly some would be magical but we don't really know when Hogwarts letters were sent to children by sensing magic potential. Along with that, this potential assumes the Ravenclaw line is in many ways accepting. An Obscurus wouldn't really be an issue. (One last problem: Why didn't Helena ever say she had a kid as a ghost? I don't know but she also didn't tell people about the Horcrux but she knew about it and who Tom Riddle was. Also, the lore surrounding ghosts is weird. [I wouldn't be upset if you think Luna is the heir. I just think this lines up better personally. [Sorry for how long this is. I don't really care too deeply if this gets likes but they make it more likely the SuperCarlinBrothers will see this. If you want to hear their thoughts make it more likely.
I personally like the idea that the Weasleys are the heirs of Gryffindor. It's an unusual coincidence that they all end up there, we know they come from old pureblood lines, and they even have the red hair to match!
@@JuanMataCFC but that doesnt matter because we know that all weasley kids and parents were in gryffindor but when you look back a the family tree one of there ancestors was a black which means that they have slytherin ancestors which in turn shuts the theory of house related heirs.
The sword will present itself to any worthy Gryffindor. It doesn't matter who they are or who they are related to. Fawkes the pheonix comes to Harry because he stayed loyal to Dumbledore in the 2nd book and movie.
Neville did not show loyalty to Dumbledore. The man was dead and buried at that point. Harry showed loyalty to Dumbledore and Fawkes was able to bring him the hat. Valor is what reveals the sword to a true Griffindor.
@@yawninglion1677 Though the Weasleys' might be the Gryffindor heir beyond that, if you also include that they all have Red Hair like Godric Gryffindor and remembering that Mrs. Weasleys' brothers fought so well & hard that it took 5 Death Eaters to defeat them and Godric was known to be an extremely great Duelist himself.
I really like this. Personally, I'm thinking that somewhere between Godric and Albus one of the heirs, probably female, decided that she didn't want to lose the Gryffindor name and courageously asked her fiance Mr Dumble if they could combine their names into Dumbledore, instead of her just taking his name. Her courage won him over and he agreed. They became the first Dumbledores!
@@iambadatnamingthings3547 The man would be part of the decision though, no? He is taking part in the ceremony, 50/50, with her, and would be sharing his name or part/none of. If you don't ask your "to be husband" if he would consent in you taking part of his name, it would make you appear selfish.
Known only by a few, but despite Griffyndor's openmindedness for muggleborn wizards, they were pretty selective and rather elitist when it came to who they arrange marrigies with. It must've always been a dor/dore/door. That's how the young heir, Lady Gryffindor joined the Dumbledore family.
@@iambadatnamingthings3547 You do realize that after last names became commonplace, it was a part of status for their bloodline to continue? What is more, it's not like they had tests that easily proved their lineage, it was almost entirely in the last name. What is more, since the man always carried it, and the wife bore it to symbolize a conjoining of families, it wasn't just done because "Men are Superior". So finally, it is through bravery, because majority of the world would look at this as neither passing down lineage, nor symbolizing the conjoining of families (as in the typical ritual, I understand that mixing the name makes sense as a mixing of the families literally, but that isn't how it was seen traditionally.) My final point is that we are talking about Wizarding families. To the purebloods it makes absolute sense that they wouldn't want the name lost, and we are talking about the potential descendants of Godric who was all for the freedom of magic to anyone that had shown a connection to it, which could be why they so willingly combined the names. All I'm saying is you can pull this notion of "Women Opression" as if she was really undignified by having to ask, but for someone of that time period that would be such a foreign ideal. It just wouldn't make sense.
All good teachers know what their kids are into. It's not trying to be 'hip'--I'm a teacher myself, and kids trust you more when you speak their language.
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It's weird to me that a big theme of the books is that people put way too stock into bloodlines, and yet the fandom is constantly wondering about who is a descendant of which famous witch/wizard. What happened to, "it's our choices that make us who we are"?
I think part of it is because the books contradict themselves. Harry’s, and Voldemort’s bloodlines end up mattering a *lot*. Despite how Harry is supposed to represent the idea that where you come from doesn’t matter at all.
@@karabelle617 Harry sn't special because of his Peverel blood, though. The fact that he has the Cloak matters to the story, but it's his big heart, leadership and tremendous selflessness that makes the difference. The fact that Voldemortalso has Peverall ancestry only reinforces the theme of personal choice.
@@colinvandenberg3446 I find that it takes away the theme of Bloodlines not mattering. Our Hero wasn't someone with an unknown bloodline, like Neville or someone without one like hermione (who is often quoted as the reason they don't matter). Our hero is the sole known heir to the peveral brothers, and therefore the sole known heir to the deathly hallows. But even more recently from a timeline perspective, his money comes from one of his ancesters who made a potion and became rich. The only reason harry never wants for money unlike Ron is because of his bloodline. additionally it's heavily implied that Voldemort made harry his equal partially because harry was half-blood. One could say "well he still became an amazing person and that's the point" but I think its a cop out that harry is at an advantage in half the story over Voldemort. The same Voldemort who was effectively disowned by his family due to his no-mag father. Whose bloodline was full of inbreeding and other issues to the point that it just fell apart. The same Voldemort who had nothing, came from nothing. Voldemort had a sucky bloodline, and he was sucky. Harry had a very different story, which a family who cared and loved for him, even if they died early. Which one of these people turned out "good?" And which one of these turned out "bad"?. Who had a lineup of adults who loved their parents and ready to help them? And who had none of that? I'm not saying the intention wasn't to focus on choices mattering more than blood. But akin to how The Creator "Accidently" made a pro slavery joke in the form of the house elves' and Hermione's attempts to free them, once you look at it beyond what is told to you... there is some iffiness.
@@karabelle617 Yes, characters put a lot of stock in bloodlines, and the fact that Harry is a half-blood is important to his character. My point is that as strong as the theme of bloodlines is in the books is equally prescient the theme that choices define the characters more than their lineage. James Poter had the same kind of exceptional lineage as Marvolo Gaunt, but he and his family judged people by their actions instead of their blood status. It's no accident James lived in a mansion while the Gaunts lived in a shack. There's also the Malfoys and Weasleys, who were both pure-blood families but while one household was held together by love the other was governed by hate.
Hang on, didn't Dumbledore explain this already? IIRC he said that nothing but the fact that Harry showed him true loyalty in the chamber of secrets could have summoned Fawkes.
I don’t believe animagi can take the form of magical creatures. That said, I really like this idea. I would argue that instead, Godric transfigured himself into a phoenix. It is incredibly dangerous for a witch/wizard to transfigure themself into an animal form. This is because when they do so, their mind also takes on the properties of that animal. So if Godric were to transfigure himself into a phoenix, he would have the brain of a phoenix and it would be irreversible. My head-canon is that he was probably close to death and transfigured himself as a final act, and as a phoenix he was immortal. Also, if the theory that Dumbledore is a Gryffindor is true (which I feel that it is) then the idea that Fawks is Godric adds a whole new layer to the “a phoenix will always come to a Dumbledore in need” thing. If Fawks is Godric, and the Dumbledore are just descendants of Gryffindor, than the phoenix that comes to Dumbledores is just Godric helping his heirs in phoenix form.
Bruh imagine there’s a tragic backstory of Slytherien losing his entire family to anti-wizard people and the only thing he had left was his locket. He goes to stay with his family’s friends the hufflepuffs who give him a bed and a place to stay until the anti-wizards track him there and burn down the house where Slytherien leaves with their only kid, a young girl named Helga who is obsessed with a cup for some odd reason. Right at the final confrontation there’s no escape as he and Helga are backed into a corner. The man raises how sword and prepares to cut them down, until there’s a clash as a young Godric comes to the aid of people who he doesn’t even know as wizards but he just sees as people in need. Also throughout the season we work in Ravenclaw somehow
Hey I'm in Pennsylvania why didn't I find the sword :( if a Slytherin could find it fittingly a Hufflepuff should've found it. I mean. It's what we do.
He just did that so Harry/Hermione knew the sword was useful for something, destroying horcruxes. Also there was a big thing that it wasn’t his property to give away, hence Harry not getting it.
When I first read the books , my headcanon was that Gryffindor was the Sorting Hat Consciousness. That's why he was a good judge of character, and that's why the Sword of Gryffindor would always come out. I thought because he was inside the Hat, he couldn't have any kids.
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@@ishitaasen3733 he said griffindor not Dumbledore... Also Dumbledore only hired them because of the curse of that position because he knew they wouldn't last more than 1 year and also because no one else wanted the job because they all knew about the curse and it was getting harder for him to find a teacher
"Only to pull out the sword .. oh god I hit something..." *said as sparks fall* Me: 'Tis barely a scratch ... *SCB, I quite literally shot soda through my nose on this, as I had just taken a drink ... and this made me laugh at the same time.*
As a medieval enthusiast, I’ve always found it hilarious how Hogwarts was supposedly built during the Anglo-Saxon era, but has enormous gothic architecture etc. In the 990’s A.D, you’d be lucky to find a castle with a keep bigger than a modern large suburban house!
they had time turners so they could go and checkout the future architecture, but the muggles couldn't see the castle so it didn't influence the fashion in their time, it's all clear :)
It’s known that the castle was updated constantly as the years went on so it’s not intended that it looked the way it does now when it was first built.
I think Dumbledor could have easily “fulfilled the requirements” to wield the sword by making it back to Hogwarts and up to his office after putting the cursed ring on in the gaunt’s shack.
@@MaryAlx it May be that way in the movie but in the book. He tells Harry that when he found it he tried to use it to see his parents and his sister . He says “it didn’t occur to me that it was now a horcrux, that it was sure to carry a curse”
@@taberquigley I know what you are referring to, but in Snape's memories, he is asking Dumbledore if he thought that by breaking the ring he would also break the curse. Dumbledore says that it was something like that. That is why I think that he first used the sword on the ring, and then tried to use it to see his family.
@@MaryAlx If he is using the sword to break the curse then he has already put on the ring otherwise there is no curse to break. There is no difference in how events played out in the books and the movies (at least in this case)
To quote Sir Terry pratchet: "It's a Sword. It's not suppose to be safe." And I don't think the sword has a safety feature that prevents people from using it.
It's a weapon though, and weapons tend to have features to prevent people from using them. Slytherin's wand is a great example of that. Its allegiance was with the bloodline, and it even had a specific spell/password that disabled it completely, which ended up rendering it permanently useless after Gormlaith Gaunt used it and died without passing on the secret. That wand has been buried in Ilvermorny's garden, dying with that branch of the Slytherin bloodline, further proving that the relics of the Founders stay in their respective families.
@@DeeSnow97 But we already know "the Wand chooses the Wizard", so we already know that wands have some intelligence of their own. However, the sword is not a wand, thus we can't expect it to act like a wand. Plus, we don't have any examples of relics like Hufflepuff's cup, Slytherin's locket, or Ravenclaw's Diadem being able to think for themselves. Lastly, we know that the sword was owned by people other than Gryphondor. i.e. Goblins.
I would say that with magic involved, there's another possibility that would be almost both. The sword takes on that which makes it stronger. So, maybe anyone can use the sword as a standard sword, but only a true gryffindor or master of the sword (whichever you would like to say) can bring out those aspects, and have it be a strong weapon. Like with the elder wand, working for Voldemort, but not working extremely well. The other thing is that there is clear evidence the sword has a level of the intelligence that wands do. Otherwise, how would it appear to true gryffindors in need?
@@cliffritch7304 We also need to consider that the sword "Always appears to a worthy Griffondor" through the sorting hat. The sorting hat is known to be intelligent and able to see into the minds of people. So is being a "True Griffindor" decided by the hat or the sword?
Actually, everyone in the European Harry Potter universe is a direct descendant of Gryffindor - in fact ANY EUROPEAN is of direct descent of another European who lived 1000 years or more before now. Let me explain: On a basic family tree, as you go up, you multiply each side by 2 - 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, so on. As you keep on going back the number will continue to grow exponentially, until after less than 30 generations, you get to an unreasonably huge number, far more than the population at the time. This means two things; many people are on the same family tree more than once, and there are in general many people in the tree. Additionally, a 2013 genetic survey conducted with 2000 individuals spread from Ireland to Turkey found that each and every single person tested of whom DNA they'd tested could be traced back to the same common ancestors who lived 1000 years ago. There are a bunch of other mathematical concepts that I don't understand which prove the same thing, but at the end of the day, it's safe to say that there is a direct ancestral relation between pretty much everyone in the European Harry Potter universe, considering they are all from the same cultural background.
Well that is at least for lines that never died out entirely but to be fair for a line to die out it usually has to do so fairly quickly for the same reason. Because there are a growing number of people involved with each generation the chance of them all dying childless drops. It is less likely that a single individual survives and has children than it is that at least one of their children do which is still less than any one of their children surviving etc. In general a lot more people have to die for a bloodline to go extinct the more time that passes.
It's not that everyone is descended from everyone, it's that certain family lines, like Gengis Khan are particularly fecundi. There are about a dozen mothers up to around 50,000 years ago most people inherited their mitochondrial DNA from.
so I did the math… and 1) you 2) 2 parents 3) 4 grandparents 4) 8 great grandparents 5) 18 great great grandparents 6) 32 great great great grandparents 7) 64 great great great great grandparents 8) 128 great great great great great grandparents 9) 256 great great great great great great grandparents 10) 512 great great great great great great great grandparents 11) 1024 great great great great great great great great grandparents 12) 2048 great great great great great great great great great grandparents 13) 4096 great great great great great great great great great great grandparents 14) 8192 great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents 15) 16384 great great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents 16) 32768 great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandparents 17) 65536 14x great grandparents 18) 131,072 15x great grandparents 19) 262,144 16x great grandparents 20) 524,288 17x great grandparents 21) 1,048,576 18x great grandparents 22) 2,097,152 19x great grandparents 23) 4,194,304 20x great grandparents 24) 8,388,608 21x great grandparents 25) 16,777,216 22x great grandparents 26) 33,554,432 23x great grandparents 27) 67,108,864 24x great grandparents 28) 134,217,728 25x great grandparents 29) 268,435,456 26x great grandparents 30) 536,870,912 27x great grandparents 536.9 million people english population 1000 years ago 1,250,000…
I feel like since there’s always new people getting on the internet for the first time, there’s always some trend/slang term being claimed by the new generation even though most of the time it’s recycled sometimes from like 3 years ago lol
@@frostyskeletons8950 Yes yes yes it's especially annoying because I'm in one of the younger generation and people will claim things that existed before but they acte like it didn't
kind of true cause theres only at least 50 families to chose from, and considering most of them are just branches of others, at the time of the founders, there was at most 10 branches to chose from if you want to marry, so.... whole wizarding world is a descendent beside the muggleborns, issue is you need a worthy heir, so not the whole wizarding world can. however not true for the muggle world
@@AnComZharptitza You are right to point out that common ancestry seems much more likely within the wizarding world. But I do like the idea that even muggles might be more likely to be related to the Hogwarts founders than we would expect. The idea that anyone of European descent alive today is in some way related to Charlemagne (or any other European around 1000 AD, for that matter) is basically a numbers game, and it may be an oversimplification, but genetic evidence seems to at least suggest that any two Europeans alive today might have a large number of common ancestors when you go back 1000 years. If you could apply the same to the wizarding world, "pure blood" fanaticism would appear rather pointless... www.nature.com/news/most-europeans-share-recent-ancestors-1.12950
I also thought that Harry and Neville were distant cousins and descendants of Gryffindor. Albus said it himself; “only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat.”
Chamber of secrets deleted scene: Harry feels the hat is heavier he reaches inside and he takes out a... cup... Tom: is that, Hufflepuff's cup? Harry still in shock gets killed by the basilisk, ginny dies and tom becomes a full human.
He may not have been married, though, and was just "sowing his wild oats". Note that none of the present-day teachers at Hogwarts are married. I've long wondered why not.
@@PhilBagels strange detail. Maybe it's just that it would be a strenuous relationship considering the teachers are at school for 10 months of the year.
@@The_Jovian In the real world, there are plenty of boarding schools where some of the teachers are married. A teacher's spouse could easily live in the castle - there's plenty of room. Or in Hogsmeade village, where it's not that difficult for married couples to get together.
"Godric is described as being the most outspoken of accepting muggle borns into Hogwarts." Um, this is false. Hufflepuff actually has that distinction. Godric merely defended her point when Slytherin tried to make it an ultimatum.
@Peri Uluırmak It's the trait of gryffindor and hufflepuff but wormtail, a gryffindor, betrayed his friends so hufflepuff is more worthy to say 'loyal'.
I always thought that Dumbledore was able to use the sword because giving up on the oportunity to see his late parents and sister by destroying the ring was a tremendous act of courage
But Dumbledore *did* try to use it! He told Harry that’s why his hand got messed up and he only had a year to live! Only after that did he have the strength to remove the Resurrection Stone and destroy the ring
One year later and I’m almost done paying off my upstart loan. Literally a miracle that they sponsored you and I took my chance. No other bank would take a second look at me due to my age.
The second object Dumbledore left to Harry was the Sword of Gryffindor, but Scrimgeour refused to give it to him, saying it was a historical artifact and not Dumbledore’s. So, maybe he wanted Harry to get the sword as an heir pice and not to destroy the deadly hallows since he knew the MM would not give the sword to Harry.
Possible candidate for heir of Ravenclaw: Quirrell. -He met Voldemort in the forest in Albania, which is where Helena hid the diadem - maybe he was looking for it? -He was tempted by Voldemort and what he could offer, much like Helena was tempted by the diadem -The diadem is worn on the head, and Quirrell had Voldemort on the back of his head
I bet when Godric enchanted the sword to appear to Gryffindors in need that he got a lot of joy knowing the goblins would never be able to hold on to it.
I thought maybe the Weasleys would be somehow the misfit heirs of Gryffindor, which is a why they are so well known in the magical community, yet so made fun of for being so poor. They all make it it to Gryffindor house, easily. etc etc
Also they have a crazy big house, their family is obessed with herilooms as if they know they are missing a gigantic one, like the Sword of gryffindor??
Maybe Griffendor was gay like albus.... and he views all his house as his kids and thats why the sword goes to any griffendor unlike the other house items that stay in the family
So building on this, maybe he was estranged from his biological family due to his sexuality, and even if he had blood relatives he willed all his belongings to Hogwarts, so the school is the only heir.
Ok, but can we talk about how there was a major missed opportunity for Draco to have some serious Zuko-like character development? Can’t you imagine him helping them because he was on the inside, and knows things? Harry could also have gotten character development out of it in learning to forgive and let go of his hatred of Draco, because we all know he had a serious fixation on Draco for a while.
@@idiot528 I don't think Harry is Slytherin's Heir because Tom embodied the Slytherins more than Harry does. He had magical heritage - not pure but apparently that doesn't matter despite what Malfoy says- he was ruthless and cruel and cunning even before he started school on top of being part of Salazar's bloodline through the Gaunts, which Harry is not, and possessing the Parseltongue which Harry only got from the Horcrux.
Also also actually actually, isn’t Harry distantly related to Salazar Slytherin??? Like he is related to Ignotus Peverell, one of the three brothers. He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is the descendant of the second brother, Cadmus Peverell. You-Know-Who is also a descendant of Salazar Slytherin. Sooooo you do the math. Wait that makes sense right? They should really pay more attention to the math budget. Comment your thoughts!
One brother died the night his wand was stolen, the other brother died after using the stone. Wouldn't only the one harry was related to have descendants? The cloak got passed on in the surviving line...
I think that's definitely up for debate, considering that Fawkes is Dumbledore's constant phoenix. It's hard to say the level of control or lack thereof the Dumbledores have over their phoenix companions. Dumbledore was also technically in need because of his suspension as headmaster by the school's board of governors. By assisting Harry and preventing the deaths of more students, Fawkes ensured that Dumbledore could return to Hogwarts and continue his life's work. Additionally, Fawkes knew of Dumbledore's investment in and particular regard towards Harry. I guess it depends on how aware you believe phoenixes are. I imagine they're very wise beyond most creatures (even in the Wizarding world), or you could say that Dumbledore simply ordered Fawkes to help Harry should he ever be absent. Then I imagine Fawkes' magical protective instincts then transferred to Harry. I like to think that a phoenix has wisdom beyond other creatures and has greater perception rather than just acting on the order of its wizard. That seems a little too owl-like for a fantastic beast with the majesty of a phoenix.
"How could Godric not have kids with that beard?" While discussing Albus in the same breath..maybe Godric was also gay with Slytherin? But I believe Fawkes was Godric. Like a guiding angel for his descendants. Can see when it was Fawkes who brings the hat and sword to Harry in the chamber. Especially in your video if you say Salazar is the basilisk and Fawkes fights it.come to think of it, harry could be a descendant as well, as Fawkes comes to his aid.... Dumbledore answers how Harry could pull out the sword, but not why Fawkes came to his aid.
Would that mean that any descendent of any founder is destined to be in that founders house regardless of their own personal traits? And if that was the case, the Weasleys could not be direct descendents of Griffindor because Albus Potter (Ginny's son) ends up in Slytherin.
The fact that fawks came to Harry's aid on multiple occasions, and that Dumbledore tried to leave the sword of Gryffindor to him makes harry in many ways Dumbledore's adopted son. Really wish Fawks had pledged his allegiance to Harry after Dumbledore died. It just seemed so obvious.
I feel like these guys are so underrated. They are so hilarious and make my pea sized understand these theories. Like why can’t YOU be my teacher?! Also they should have like way more subs-
The reason why he was able to use the sword was because it was where it always belong when it’s not being used in Godrich Gryffindor‘s old room or “his secret room”
I think the phoenix metaphors are more literal. I think Albus Dumbledore is a literal reincarnation of Gryffondor. He probably doesnt know it and it probably has nothing to do with the Dumbledore family tree. Gryffondor has no heirs because he himself is born again whenever he dies. Maybe part of the magic used makes him sterile and cant retaining old memories, but will undeniably always be the same person
I have a headcanon where when Dumbledore used to live in Gryffindor Tower as a student, his dormitory would eventually be the same one Harry and Ron would live in.
My personal headcanon is that Godric is actually the father of Helena Ravenclaw after falling in love with Rowena, he could still have modern descendants if Helena had kids before being killed by the Bloody Baron
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