Hoy os traigo la noticia de que J.K Rowling, aparte de haber actualizado la página de Pottermore, nos ha sorprendido con un nuevo relato sobre la familia de los Potter!
El relato está en inglés y para todo el que esté interesado dejo el link en la imagen.
El relato comienza hablando de que el apellido Potter no es un tan muggle como parece sino que tiene un largo linaje de sangre pura detrás y un ilustrísimo comienzo (del que hemos leído en Las reliquias de la muerte). Se habla que el apellido mágico de los Potter se remonta al siglo XII cuando vivía un hombre al que se le apodaba "The Potterer" y que fue evolucionando a lo largo de los años hasta Potter. Se habla de que tenía un gran don para las plantas y las pociones, lo que hizo que se creara la fortuna de la familia Potter y que muchas de las pociones que él utilizaba han ido evolucionando hasta las más potentes e importantes de hoy en día.
El hijo mayor de este señor, Hardwin, se casó con Iolanthe Peverell, quien procedía de Godric's Hollow, era la nieta de Ignotus Peverell quien al no tener descendencia masculina le cedió la capa de invisibilidad a ésta.
A parte de esto se habla de otras muchas generaciones Potter, como el caso de Ralston Potter que perteneció a la Wizengamot, hasta llegar a James Potter.
Os dejo el texto completo aquí, espero que lo disfrutéis.
«The Potter family is a very old one, but it was
never (until the birth of Harry James Potter) at the very forefront of
wizarding history, contenting itself with a solid and comfortable existence in
the backwaters.
Potter is a not uncommon Muggle surname, and the
family did not make the so-called ‘Sacred Twenty-Eight’ for this reason; the
anonymous compiler of that supposedly definitive list of pure-bloods suspected
that they had sprung from what he considered to be tainted blood. The wizarding
Potter family had illustrious beginnings, however, some of which was hinted at
in Deathly Hallows.
In the Muggle world ‘Potter’ is an occupational
surname, meaning a man who creates pottery. The wizarding family of Potters
descends from the twelfth-century wizard Linfred of Stinchcombe, a locally
well-beloved and eccentric man, whose nickname, ‘the Potterer’, became
corrupted in time to ‘Potter’. Linfred was a vague and absent-minded fellow
whose Muggle neighbours often called upon his medicinal services. None of them
realised that Linfred’s wonderful cures for pox and ague were magical; they all
thought him a harmless and lovable old chap, pottering about in his garden with
all his funny plants. His reputation as a well-meaning eccentric served Linfred
well, for behind closed doors he was able to continue the series of experiments
that laid the foundation of the Potter family’s fortune. Historians credit
Linfred as the originator of a number of remedies that evolved into potions
still used to this day, including Skele-gro and Pepperup Potion. His sales of
such cures to fellow witches and wizards enabled him to leave a significant
pile of gold to each of his seven children
upon his death.
Linfred’s
eldest son, Hardwin, married a beautiful young witch by the name of Iolanthe
Peverell, who came from the village of Godric’s Hollow. She was the
granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell. In the absence of male heirs, she, the
eldest of her generation, had inherited her grandfather’s invisibility cloak. It
was, Iolanthe explained to Hardwin, a tradition in her family that the
possession of this cloak remained a secret, and her new husband respected her
wishes. From this time on, the cloak was handed down to the eldest in each new
generation.
The
Potters continued to marry their neighbours, occasionally Muggles, and to live
in the West of England, for several generations, each one adding to the family
coffers by their hard work and, it must be said, by the quiet brand of
ingenuity that had characterised their forebear, Linfred.
Occasionally,
a Potter made it all the way to London, and a member of the family has twice
sat on the Wizengamot: Ralston Potter, who was a member from 1612-1652, and who
was a great supporter of the Statute of Secrecy (as opposed to declaring war on
the Muggles, as more militant members wished to do) and Henry Potter (Harry to
his intimates), who was a direct descendant of Hardwin and Iolanthe, and served
on the Wizengamot from 1913 - 1921. Henry caused a minor stir when he publicly
condemned then Minister for Magic, Archer Evermonde, who had forbidden the
magical community to help Muggles waging the First World War. His outspokenness
on the behalf of the Muggle community was also a strong contributing factor in the family’s exclusion from the
‘Sacred Twenty-Eight’.
Henry’s son was called Fleamont Potter. Fleamont was so
called because it was the dying wish of Henry’s mother that he perpetuate her
maiden name, which would otherwise die out. He bore the burden remarkably well;indeed,
he always attributed his dexterity at duelling to the number of times he had to
fight people at Hogwarts after they had made fun of his name. It was Fleamont
who took the family gold and quadrupled it, by creating magical Sleekeazy’s
Hair Potion ( ‘two drops tames even the most bothersome barnet’ ). He sold the company at a vast
profit when he retired, but no amount of riches could compensate him or his
wife Euphemia for their childlessness. They had quite given up hope of a son or
daughter when, to their shock and surprise, Euphemia found that she was
pregnant and their beloved boy, James, was born.
Fleamont and Euphemia lived long enough to see James marry a
Muggle-born girl called Lily Evans, but not to meet their grandson, Harry.
Dragon pox carried them off within days of each other, due to their advanced
age, and James Potter then inherited Ignotus Peverell’s Invisibility Cloak.»
