#Gaunt family

[giselsann]

you'll be fine Sebastian, at least you're Slytherin🐍

[darlingzelda]

ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ʜᴇᴀᴅᴄᴀɴᴏɴꜱ

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ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ᴄᴀɴ’ᴛ ꜱᴇᴇ ʏᴏᴜ, ʙᴜᴛ ʀᴇᴄᴏɢɴɪᴢᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴏꜰᴛ ꜱᴄᴇɴᴛ ᴏꜰ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴇʀꜰᴜᴍᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴇᴇᴛ ᴀɢᴀɪɴꜱᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰʟᴀɢꜱᴛᴏɴᴇ. ʜᴇ ꜰɪɴᴅꜱ ʜɪᴍꜱᴇʟꜰ ʟɪꜱᴛᴇɴɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴏᴏᴛꜱᴛᴇᴘꜱ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴏꜰᴛᴇɴ ᴛʜᴀɴ ʜᴇ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴀᴅᴍɪᴛ. ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ ꜱᴄᴇɴᴛ ᴏꜰ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘᴇʀꜰᴜᴍᴇ ʟɪɴɢᴇʀꜱ ʙᴇʜɪɴᴅ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴇᴀᴠᴇ, ᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ ʜɪꜱ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ᴛʜᴜᴍᴘ ᴜɴᴜꜱᴜᴀʟʟʏ Qᴜɪᴄᴋʟʏ.

ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ʜᴀꜱ ᴘʀɪᴠᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ᴀꜱᴋᴇᴅ ꜱᴇʙᴀꜱᴛɪᴀɴ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴇꜱᴄʀɪʙᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ɪɴ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴅᴇᴛᴀɪʟ ꜱᴏ ʜᴇ ᴄᴀɴ ᴘɪᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴏᴋ ʟɪᴋᴇ. ꜱᴇʙᴀꜱᴛɪᴀɴ ɪꜱ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴄᴏɴꜰᴜꜱᴇᴅ, ʙᴜᴛ ᴅᴏᴇꜱ ᴀꜱ ʜᴇ ᴀꜱᴋꜱ.

ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ɪᴍᴀɢɪɴᴇꜱ ʜᴏᴡ ʜᴇ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴄᴏɴꜰᴇꜱꜱ ʜɪꜱ ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢꜱ ɪꜰ ʜᴇ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴀꜱꜱᴇʀᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ ᴡᴀɴᴛꜱ. ᴀꜱ ᴀ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴀ ʀɪᴄʜ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ (ʜᴏᴡᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇ��ᴇʟʏ ᴀᴡꜰᴜʟ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴡᴇʀᴇ), ʜᴇ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ ʜɪᴍꜱᴇʟꜰ ᴡᴀɴᴛɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ᴍᴜᴄʜ ᴏꜰ ᴀ��ʏᴛʜɪɴɢ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ʜᴇ ᴡᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅɴ’ᴛ ɪᴍᴍᴇᴅɪᴀᴛᴇʟʏ ʜᴀᴠᴇ.

ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ꜰɪɴᴅꜱ ᴇxᴄᴜꜱᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ɴᴇᴀʀ ʏᴏᴜ ᴏʀ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜ ʏᴏᴜ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ʏᴏᴜ’ʀᴇ ᴛᴏɢᴇᴛʜᴇʀ. ʏᴏᴜ ᴀꜱᴋ ʜɪᴍ ᴛᴏ ʜᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ? ʜɪꜱ ꜰɪɴɢᴇʀꜱ ‘ᴀᴄᴄɪᴅᴇɴᴛᴀʟʟʏ’ ʙʀᴜꜱʜ ʏᴏᴜʀꜱ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ. ʏᴏᴜ’ʀᴇ ʙᴇɢɪɴɴɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴜꜱᴘᴇᴄᴛ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴡʜᴇɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ʜᴇ ᴜꜱᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ‘ꜱᴏʀʀʏ, ɪ ᴄᴀɴ’ᴛ ꜱᴇᴇ’ ᴇxᴄᴜꜱ��� ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ꜱɪɴɢʟᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ.

ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴘʀᴇᴛᴇɴᴅ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ’ꜱ ʟᴏꜱᴛ ʜɪꜱ ᴡᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ꜱᴏ ʏᴏᴜ’ʟʟ ᴏꜰꜰᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀᴅ ʜɪᴍ ᴀʀᴏᴜɴᴅ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪɴᴅ ɪᴛ. ɪᴛ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴇɴᴅꜱ ᴜᴘ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏꜱᴛ ᴏᴅᴅ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇꜱ, ꜱᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇʟʏ ᴇɴᴏᴜɢʜ. ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴀʟᴍᴏꜱᴛ ʟɪᴋᴇ ʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴛᴇᴅ ɪᴛ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀɴᴇᴀᴛʜ ʜɪꜱ ꜰᴏᴜʀ-ᴘᴏꜱᴛᴇʀ ʙᴇᴅ.

ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ɢᴇᴛꜱ ᴇxᴛʀᴇᴍᴇʟʏ ᴀɴɴᴏʏᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ꜰʟᴜꜱᴛᴇʀᴇᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ꜱᴇʙᴀꜱᴛɪᴀɴ ᴅʀᴏᴘꜱ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴏʙᴠɪᴏᴜꜱ ʜɪɴᴛꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ ᴍᴀʏ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀɴ ᴇɴᴏʀᴍᴏᴜꜱ ᴄʀᴜꜱʜ ᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜ. ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴄᴀᴛᴄʜ ᴏɴ, ᴏꜰ ᴄᴏᴜʀꜱᴇ, (ᴛᴏ ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ’ ʀᴇʟɪᴇꜰ) ʙᴜᴛ ꜱᴇʙᴀꜱᴛɪᴀɴ ꜱᴛɪʟʟ ʟɪᴋᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴇᴀꜱᴇ ʜɪᴍ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ɪᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ᴄʜᴀɴᴄᴇ ʜᴇ ɢᴇᴛꜱ.

ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ᴠᴇʜᴇᴍᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴅᴇɴɪᴇꜱ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇꜱ ʏᴏᴜ ɪɴ ᴀɴʏ ᴡᴀʏ, ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴜᴘ ʜɪꜱ ʟᴏᴠᴇꜱɪᴄᴋ ᴀꜰꜰᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛᴇʟʟɪɴɢ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴇ ᴛʜɪɴᴋꜱ ʏᴏᴜ’ʀᴇ ᴀɴɴᴏʏɪɴɢ ᴏʀ ᴅɪᴍᴡɪᴛᴛᴇᴅ. ꜱᴇʙᴀꜱᴛɪᴀɴ ꜱᴇᴇꜱ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ɪᴛ.

ᴘɪɴɪɴɢ!ᴏᴍɪɴɪꜱ ᴡʜᴏ ɪꜱ ᴛᴇʀʀɪꜰɪᴇᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ’ꜱ ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ʜᴇ’ꜱ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴀʏ, ᴀɴᴅ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏɴɢᴇꜱᴛ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ʜᴇ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ʜᴇ’ᴅ ʙᴇ ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ ꜰᴏʀᴇᴠᴇʀ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ʜɪꜱ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ’ꜱ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ɴᴀᴍᴇ. ʜᴇ’ꜱ ꜱᴄᴀʀᴇᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴ ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴜᴅᴅᴇɴʟʏ ʜᴇ ᴡᴏɴ’ᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴅᴏ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ʜᴇ’ꜱ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ꜰᴇʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴡᴀʏ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ.

[hollowed-theory-hall]

I'd love to know your thoughts on the Gaunts in Hogwarts Legacy. I loved Ominis as a character, and the story of his family was interesting, but I'd really love an in-universe explanation for how they get to the state they are at when Tom is born in less than what... 40ish years? At most? How exactly do they go from multiple family members functional enough to attend Hogwarts to barely able to speak English (or seemingly use magic) that quickly?

So, the reason I didn't put Ominis and the Gaunts in my big canon contradictions in the HL post, is becouse I can in fact headcanon my way into Ominis' existence making sense (kinda). We only need one big factor that would allow for a very fast decline and we have one — inbreeding.

I mentioned this already here, but Marvolo speaks like he remembers the influence his family once had. Not only that, but he's different from his kids. He acts more like a person who can be somewhat reasoned with than both his barely more than squib children who don't seem capable of much intellectually.

How this might've happened is, say, one Gaunt got obsessed with blood purity and around the 1780s married his cousin.

His children turn out okay since it's just one generation of cousin marriages, but then his son also marries a cousin in the 1810s.

Their children would still seem reasonably fine and marry cousins again. And they have children in the 1840s.

By this point, most of them would be losing prestige and money and many other purebloods would want nothing to do with the Gaunts. This pushes them to keep marrying just a bit too close and shrink down the family to only the main line and maybe another one.

So, these children born in the 1840s would have their own kids with their cousins around the 1870s.

Now, these kids are Marvolo and Ominis, another brother (since Ominis mentions having older brothers), and at least one sister (for the sake of this theory to work). By this point, inbreeding would start to be a problem after 4 generations of first/second-cousin marriages in a row, which would work with Ominis being born blind, for example (which is a possible result of inbreeding).

Now, while both Ominis in the game and Marvolo in the 1920s talk a big game about their family influence, by the 1890s, it's a lie. I think they started falling from grace earlier throughout the century (as I mentioned), losing money and prestige and holding onto their position in the wizarding world by the skin of their teeth. Ominis' posturing about his father knowing the headmaster in HL always came off to me as just that — posturing. His father may have met Phineas Nigellus Black, but they weren't close by any means. Ominis is just threatening you the way he knows and can — which is some of the connections still left for his family since the money ran dry years ago.

The fact we don't see other kids in Slytherin trying to win Ominis' good graces for the sake of his family's influence (blindness or not) again suggests a lot of said influence is posturing more than the real deal. I mean, he's only friends with Sebastian and Anne, two students who are definitely outsiders within Slytherin (even if there's no way they live in Feldcroft, since there's no way that hamlet doesn't exist in the books).

Also, Ominis mentions his brothers and father tortured muggles. There's a non-zero chance that in 1890 most of his family is in Azkaban and he really is just lying and he has nothing he can do against anyone with his connections. Basically, it's a bluff.

I think seeing them like this adds an interesting reason as to why Noctua (Ominis' aunt) would want to look for Slytherin's Scripturium (though I don't think the Scripturium exists in the books, so let's say she looked for the Chamber of Secrets and was eaten by the basilisk since she wasn't the heir it was meant to obey in the 1880s). Becouse she's trying to bring the family back to its place of influence as descendants of Salazar Slytherin in a different way from her brother.

By the 1890s, Noctua is dead, there are no Gaunt cousins, just the main line with Marvolo, Ominis, unnamed brother, and unnamed sister.

Ominis is likely disowned at some point, and it fits his character to decide not to have kids and not pass on Parseltongue, which he sees as dark. I can see his character making that decision. But for this theory to work, he has to die before Tom is born, so he doesn't live a long life unless he left Britain and is living happily in the US or Australia or something.

The unnamed brother might be in Azkaban for crucio-ing a muggle, getting him out of the picture in an in-character way and making sure he has no kids.

Marvolo is where it gets interesting becouse with the state we see with his kids, and the nosedive off a cliff the family took in his time, my theory is that he had his kids with the aforementioned named sister. It would explain why Morfin and Mereope are like that. It would explain why they were completely shunned from wizarding society. How they lost even the measly amount of influence they had so quickly. It would fit with Marvolo's view of blood purity and the Gaunts' blood in particular, being purer than the rest.

So, this is my answer as to how I can headcanon my way into the Gaunt family's fast decline making sense. That being said, do I think Ominis is canon for the books' universe? Probably not, but I can make up shit to make it work, as I illustrated here.

[capriddle]

I have this headcanon where Voldemort was convinced he got his beauty from his mother's family. Then he sees Morfin.

[radical-ghostface]

Smiley Omi 🩶🥹

This one ended up looking a little.. weird 😏😂

[spotted-mooncalf]

Ominis in the Undercroft🐍✨

[meyrinn-revery]

Ominis Gaunt

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Here are some Ominis Gaunt GIFs that I created from two YouTube videos from @LegendsForeverStudios and @ weepywillow.

Honestly, I feel like the creators of the game managed to reflect in his eyes the sorrow and fears that persecute him. I find it a shame that his story wasn't developed more than that, he could have been even more interesting.

You can also find some GIFs of Hogwarts Legacy in my fanfiction We had it all, available on Wattpad in English and in French (Nous avions tout).

[therealvinelle]

In book 6 the memories involving the Gaunts involve dialogue in Parseltongue. Given that Dumbledore understands what's been said do you think he's secretly a Parselmouth too or did he just study it / use some magical translator?

Given how fond Dumbledore is of jumping to conclusions, I don't think the man needs to understand a damn word to decide he knows exactly what just occurred. Besides, the Gaunts, bless them, weren't subtle. Morfin revealed something Merope desperately didn't want him to, something to do with the handsome Muggle he'd attacked, and whatever he said provoked Marvolo into attacking her in front of a Ministry worker. Shortly after Merope seizes the opportunity to elope with said Muggle.

It's one of those scenes in a foreign language movie you can more or less follow even if it isn't subtitled.

That being said, it's perfectly possible Dumbledore is a Parselmouth. The Gaunts became an incestuous mess, yes, but Tom Riddle is proof that only one parent carrying the gene is required. All it takes is one Gaunt having a child outside the family (and remember they weren't always what we meet in the shack, for all we know they had a proper house they were evicted from a year before Bob Ogden came to visit. We know less than nothing about these people) and you have someone carrying the gene. So, sure, Dumbledore could have been a Parselmouth, but that's not to say I believe that he is or that he would need to be to understand what Morfin said to Marvolo.

[manbunzscareme]

I would say that I’m not good at colouring. BUT LOOK AT HOW CUTE THEY ARE. 50s/60s au

Here’s the reference

[lumaconstante]

Dear Hogwarts Legacy fans,

I have a genuine question about how to include Solomon in the fanfic. I haven't found much information about him. The fanfic "Blood Stain" initially takes place during the second year vacation of Ominis and the Sallow twins, the idea is that Ominis falls in love with Marie little by little over the years, so he takes a while to reveal to her that he is a wizard. I was wondering how Solomon would react later in the story if the twins and Omnis took Marie to spend the day with them at the Sallow house. Since Anne and Marie are really good friends and quite close, I wonder how Solomon would react to the muggle girl's frequent visits to the house to keep Anne company. Or Marie trying to convince Anne to accompany her on short walks so Anne doesn't just stay locked up at home. Do you have any ideas? Any suggestions are welcome!

[teddyniffler]

The Harry Potter TV show will have more content on The House of Gaunt... or at least, I hope so.

The creators of the TV show have announced Hogwarts legacy will tie into the HP TV show and vice versa, for example, Philosopher's Stone, when Harry is asking Ron about his family, if they were all wizards, Ron can mention his great- great Aunt was deputy headmistress once under Professor Black, it can be little things like this, however the one idea that has my interest is Chamber of Secrets.

Remember in Hogwarts Legacy there was said to be a Gaunt quest that was removed, a player found the files in the back code, where players could go to the legendery House of Gaunt. With the Director's cut coming out in the near future, it's likely that quest may be back in the game. The makers of Hogwarts legacy know players love Sebastian and Ominis, the tops with both of their faces, both boys being in the Quidditch game, general love for them both in the fandom.

On Harry Potter (Past Wizarding World / Pottermore) there is fragments of the Gaunt history, and while you have to go searching for it in many places, you can build up a picture of the family, and there's a bit on Corvinus Gaunt as a student at Hogwarts in the 1700s, hiding the chamber within the plumbing. We know a child of a Gaunt, Isolt Sayre founded the American school. We know from Hogwarts Legacy that Ominis' father still had influence and power in the wizarding world, able to have his say with the Headmaster. They are well known for being dark wizards, with a ton of knowledge and ancient rituals they apparently perform on their kids, the stuff Noctua wanted her brother to stop. These are not the same Gaunts of Half Blood Prince, these are the Gaunts who still had power and were dangerous wizards.

So the TV show is linking Hogwarts legacy to the TV show. They said if they go outside of Canon - Aka adding in Ominis, a young member of the Gaunt family- JKR gets to know and they confirm if she is happy with it. She knows about Ominis and the Gaunt storylines from the game.

She herself created fragmented insights to the Gaunts. Who is this young wizard who causally hid the chamber of secrets enterence without a second thought of all the children just like him who he is helping to kill? I would love to learn more about Corvinus. Was he forced into hiding it? Did he do it willingly? Is he more like a Draco or Regulus character who believes in what their parents tell them to believe. Did he hide it out of fear of what his family would do to him, should he allow the chamber to be found? So many questions about him.

They've been guarding the chamber for centuries. What does that do to more gentle Gaunts like Ominis or Isolt or her mother, Rionach Gaunt, who are good, decent people.

The Gaunts are briefly mentioned in the book, but their history is so fascinating, but the majority of it is outside the original books. You can find loads more on the Harry Potter site. You can find it in Hogwarts Legacy, but the books only cover Marvolo, Morfin and Merope, and Voldermort ends two of them (somewhat remotely)

The TV show can change that. In Chamber of Secrets, show Harry stumbling upon Corvinus Gaunt's name or picture in an old book or trophy. Have Harry walking through the chamber and, unseen by Harry himself, have the name 'Gaunt' scratched into the wall, placed there long ago by yet another Gaunt. Show Professor Black standing with a man who is Mr. Gaunt (Marvolo and Ominis' father) and have the trio question who he is—who is this Gaunt fellow and why was he so important back then? Then keep the little clues coming until Half-Blood Prince when Harry hears the name Gaunt. Then have it hit him that these people are the ones who guarded the chamber, who were Slytherin's ancestors. Then have him slowly realize he has been obsessing over Voldemort's family for years and have him realise it's not him, but the Horcrux inside of him that's doing it. The amount of foreshadowing here can be huge.

Harry is related to them, somewhat distantly, but with the Gaunts paticularly way of breeding, Harry's bloodline is the closest to family they have. They are all Peverell decendents, fated to carry the secret of the Deathly Hallows down their lines. Voldermort and Harry are more or less cousins and when people learn that for the first time, they are shocked, but maybe they can explore that in the show, the books hide it well, leaving little clues, but its often missed by more casual readers.

Have Dumbledore in season 6 mention one of the Gaunts, a young boy who ran away from the House of Gaunt at a young age, was never found by Voldemort and escaped the certain death that would have surely came to him from him also being an heir of Slytherin, as Voldemort wanted to ensure he was the only one—that would really make Ominis' fans happy. Have Dumbledore hope he had a happy life, had children, that they are out there somewhere still to this day, other Gaunts. Maybe even say he found one and asked for permission to destory their ring. Leave Harry a note in HP 7 that the Gaunts said destroy it in the end, to free them of their last link to a darker past.

I really hope they do something like this, even in Goblet of Fire, show Voldermort in the Riddle house and have him mention it used to belong to his own family, before they lost everything (That would make me so happy as its a personal headcanon of mine that the Riddle House is really the House of Gaunt)

I know some people are now anxious after seeing the news, but I think this is a really, really good thing. This didn't even mention the Sallows, but imagine seeing in Season 5 at St Mungo's, a picture of Anne Sallow, a young witch who was one of the first breakout cases for curse cures, or a Sebastian Sallow on a list of past Hogwarts teachers. I know non-Hogwarts Legacy players may not be impressed by the game being tied into the TV show, but I feel strongly that the TV show will bring us much more content and closure.

[giselsann]

Gaunt family 🐍

[crescentlxna]

The birth of envy

Friday, December 31st, 1926.

Last Protocol of the Year.

This evening, a young woman came to us to find shelter from the icy cold winds blowing across London, a snowstorm has been raging for multiple days already, yet today it had been exceptionally bad. The streets were unusable during the morning hours, traffic stuck for hours. Without questioning how the woman even made it to our humble orphanage, miss Cole had ordered us to take in the pregnant lady.

Minutes after arriving, she suddenly began clutching her womb, and miss Cole’s and I‘s gaze met, both knowing exactly what was happening—She was having contractions, but by the look of it, she’s had them for a while already, the young woman not looking surprised by it. I swiftly ushered our children into their respective rooms, not wanting to scare them with a potentially difficult childbirth. Meanwhile, Miss Cole had already helped the young miss to a spare room.

When I joined them, the poor woman was grasping onto anything she could reach, my coworker patting her pale skin with a cool cloth. This was not the New Year’s Eve we had expected, yet we couldn’t just abandon a fellow woman in such a vulnerable position. We both quietly wondered why she would seek medical care in an orphanage and not a hospital, but maybe, we thought, she was unable to continue to the nearest hospital.

The labor was a difficult process for all of us, the babys head simply wouldn’t push through, and the miss grew weaker and weaker on us. Having already been in an unfortunate condition upon arrival, we had expected it.

Another push from her, yet the child would slip back in. I wanted to help, but it was too dangerous. I felt enormous pity and anxiety throughout the labor, we were scared that neither her nor her unborn child would survive. She was so young, barely 19 it seemed, yet her body had been weakened, her spirit broken down, and her will for life was barely there. A shiver ran down my spine, not only from the howling wind, but also from her condition. Emaciated, a hollow face, and she generally seemed confused and uncomfortable by our presence.

After another hour, the moonlight being our only light source at the time, i could finally see it—the head was now fully out, and with another push, a surprisingly healthy baby boy had been born. He immediately began to cry, feeling cold and disoriented, much like his mother. I swaddled the sweet child in my apron, as we didn’t have anything else to shield the boy from the cold, and handed him over to his awaiting mother. I began crying, not out of relief, but pity for both the child and the young girl. She was bleeding heavily, and I knew she wouldn’t pull through. Had we had a doctor, maybe, she would have survived. Yet the baring labor was too much for her brittle body, the color fading from her thin face by the second. She rubbed the boys cheek, continuing to look at him as it it was a farewell. I think that she, too, knew that her life would end soon.

“Tom Marvolo Riddle”—she whispered quietly, speaking up for the first time during her short lived visit.

That’s the name she chose for the newborn—named after the boys father and maternal grandfather. Yet before we could ask her about the father’s whereabouts, her brown eyes closed for the last time, a tear rolling down her cheek. It seemed like the deceased mother had nobody in her life to support her. Maybe that’s why she came here, to ensure her child had a home.

She died, yet the boy lived. What a tragedy, something that will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

As if he sensed her last breath, the boy grew restless seconds after her passing. Not me or miss Cole were able to console little Tom. He cried for hours, trying to reach out for someone that was no longer there, his face visibly stressed. It broke our hearts, so we have decided to take him in, despite the shortage of food and supplies we have left.

I wonder how he will live with such knowledge of his mother’s passing.

- Annaliese Brown.

[hollowed-theory-hall]

I just finished going through Tales of Beedle the Bard and I have a few notes

First: There's a weird timeline discrepancy with the Tale of the Three Brothers as a whole and it bothers me

In Dumbledore's notes, he traces the first historical reference of the Elder Wand to Emeric the Evil:

The first well-documented mention of a wand made of elder that had particularly strong and dangerous powers was owned by Emeric, commonly called “the Evil”, a short-lived but exceptionally aggressive wizard who terrorised the South of England in the early Middle Ages

(Tales of Beedle the Bard, Dumbledore's notes on the Tale of the Three Brothers)

Now the period referred to as the "early Middle Ages" is between the 5th and 10th centuries. Way before Beedle wrote down the story (15th century).

We also know (thanks to irl history) that the name Peverell is one that arrived with the Normans to England, meaning the story of the three brothers could only have taken place after the Norman conquest in 1066, which usually isn't referred to as "early Middle Ages" and it's kind of odd to do so. So, someone has to be wrong here because Emeric couldn't have had the Elder Wand before it was made.

It's possible Dumbledore is referring to the 11th century as "early Middle Ages", which would make the timeline make more sense if we assume Emeric is the wizard mentioned to slit the oldest brother's throat to steal his wand in the story (possible, but doesn't sound like Dumbledore, so I consider this unlikely). It's also possible Emeric didn't have the Elder Wand at all, but a different powerful wand (also unlikely). Or that the Peverell brothers weren't the brothers in the story (even less likely). Or that the Peverell brothers arrived in South England before the conquest (possible, maybe, not super likely either).

I don't really have an answer for this discrepancy so I'd be happy if someone has an idea how this could make sense... (looking for a Watsonian explanation, not a Doylist one)

Second: Why are we all saying the Gaunts are descendants of Cadmus Peverell?

I mean, Marvolo says this:

but then realized that he was showing Ogden the ugly, black-stoned ring he was wearing on his middle finger, waving it before Ogden’s eyes. “See this? See this? Know what it is? Know where it came from? Centuries it’s been in our family, that’s how far back we go, and pure-blood all the way! Know how much I’ve been offered for this, with the Peverell coat of arms engraved on the stone?”

(HBP, Ch10)

From this we know two things:

The Deathly Hallows symbol was known as the Peverell Coat of Arms at one point in time, at least among UK purebloods. Which, makes sense with the same symbol being carved on Ignotus' grave.

The ring was in the Gaunt family for centuries, but that's hardly a clear timeline, neither does it indicate dependency, even though, it's what Marvolo is implying.

Now, why do I doubt the Gaunts are actually related to the Peverells? Well, I'm not. They might be distantly related since all purebloods are, but I think they might not be the descendants of the second brother. Why is that?

Simple, it's implied he died without children.

The tale of the three brothers literally says he asked for the stone to summon the girl he wished to marry who died before they married:

To his amazement and his delight, the figure of the girl he had once hoped to marry before her untimely death appeared at once before him.

(Tales of Beedle the Bard, the Tale of the Three Brothers)

Unless he fathered some child outside of marriage before (which I don't think is the case), then Cadmus died before he had any kids.

Now, the tale as we see it has some inaccuracies (such as Death being a character) for the sake of embellishment or due to time. After all, Beedle wrote the tale down in the 15th century and the story of the Peverells happened in the 1070s-ish or earlier. By the time Beedle wrote down the story it's been long enough that the story could've gotten corrupted. Also, Beedle seems to take some creative liberties in his stories even if there is likely some truth to all of them (like in Babbity Rabbity). But I feel like the creative liberties had more to do with Death giving them the items and less to do with the fate of each brother, considering he was correct about the cloak and how it passed from father to son and the violent transfer of the Elder Wand. Like, why would he be wrong just about the second brother?

I mean, all we know is that the Gaunts had the stone for a few centuries and were clearly unaware of its actual power and purpose and we have the implication from the tale that Cadmus had no children. So, why are we assuming Marvolo is correct about being a descendant of the Peverells from a millennia ago?

It's possible a Gaunt received the ring from Cadmus, or that they are descendants of an unnamed Peverell sister, but I don't think they really do descend from Cadmus himself. Like, the tale mentions him killing himself to be with the girl he wanted to marry, idk, to me, this implies he didn't have kids, so I feel this assumption (which was confirmed by JKR) is kinda weird.

Anyone else was bothered by this or is it just me overthinking things?

[capriddle]

Imagine being young Voldemort, full of hope and curiosity about your maternal family, descendants of Salazar Slytherin himself. And then you arrive at the Gaunt shack. Poor young Tom.

[radical-ghostface]

No bc he has no business being this pretty