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deathtocapslockSo I was reading through old spoilers looking for backstories for my head-canon (though my VWar1 series reached the end of the war I'm still working on a couple of appendices). I got all the way back to book 1 spoilers and found the following:
In the entry about Ollivander, it mentions:
Parentage:
Wizard father, Muggle-born mother
Family:
Married, one son, one daughter (deceased)
Yet according to the entry on 'Pure-Blood', in the early 1930s Cantankerus Nott included the Ollivanders in his list of 28 old pureblood families. Ollivander sold Tom Riddle his wand in 1938, which means there was at least one non-pureblood Ollivander when the list was compiled. So: either Mr Nott's research was spotty or there was some personal motive to keep the Ollivanders on the list. In any case, this contradiction deducts from the authority of the list more than non-inclusion of the Potters, Crabbes and Goyles. Not including those families can be explained by there being some groups with narrower definition of pureblood, but why make an exception for an obvious technical half-blood? Perhaps the Ollivanders' position as most favored wand-makers got them special treatment. Or perhaps Nott had a personal reason to want Ollivander's children to be seen as acceptable spouses in his social circle.
Hmm. In the early 1930s the Nott who became a DE must have been a child. In an interview Rowling said he was a widower. Ollivander's daughter is deceased. Connecting as many dots as possible: Cantankerus is DE!Nott's father. When his son was very young he was already compiling a list of families he saw as providing potential legitimate wives for said son (and spouses for any other children he may have had). To make the list usable by others he included his own family too.
Eventually Cantankerus' son married Ollivander's daughter, but they had their only son very late - was that because they married late or due to fertility problems?
BTW if Ollivander's son was still alive at the time of writing (late 1990s?) why is he not working with his father to continue the family business? Why doesn't he take over the shop when his father disappears? And why doesn't Ollivander ask to be reunited with his son after he is saved from Malfoy Manor? Is it possible that Ollivander not only had a DE for a son-in-law but also for a son? Twice we see Ollivander showing a conflicted attitude to Tom's rise - he can't help being fascinated with him and his magic while still being horrified with the outcomes of his actions. What would the children raised by this man think of Tom? Could Ollivander Jr have avoided suspicion by Albus and the Ministry alike if indeed his sister was married to someone Albus knew as an old associate of Tom's?
In the entry about Ollivander, it mentions:
Parentage:
Wizard father, Muggle-born mother
Family:
Married, one son, one daughter (deceased)
Yet according to the entry on 'Pure-Blood', in the early 1930s Cantankerus Nott included the Ollivanders in his list of 28 old pureblood families. Ollivander sold Tom Riddle his wand in 1938, which means there was at least one non-pureblood Ollivander when the list was compiled. So: either Mr Nott's research was spotty or there was some personal motive to keep the Ollivanders on the list. In any case, this contradiction deducts from the authority of the list more than non-inclusion of the Potters, Crabbes and Goyles. Not including those families can be explained by there being some groups with narrower definition of pureblood, but why make an exception for an obvious technical half-blood? Perhaps the Ollivanders' position as most favored wand-makers got them special treatment. Or perhaps Nott had a personal reason to want Ollivander's children to be seen as acceptable spouses in his social circle.
Hmm. In the early 1930s the Nott who became a DE must have been a child. In an interview Rowling said he was a widower. Ollivander's daughter is deceased. Connecting as many dots as possible: Cantankerus is DE!Nott's father. When his son was very young he was already compiling a list of families he saw as providing potential legitimate wives for said son (and spouses for any other children he may have had). To make the list usable by others he included his own family too.
Eventually Cantankerus' son married Ollivander's daughter, but they had their only son very late - was that because they married late or due to fertility problems?
BTW if Ollivander's son was still alive at the time of writing (late 1990s?) why is he not working with his father to continue the family business? Why doesn't he take over the shop when his father disappears? And why doesn't Ollivander ask to be reunited with his son after he is saved from Malfoy Manor? Is it possible that Ollivander not only had a DE for a son-in-law but also for a son? Twice we see Ollivander showing a conflicted attitude to Tom's rise - he can't help being fascinated with him and his magic while still being horrified with the outcomes of his actions. What would the children raised by this man think of Tom? Could Ollivander Jr have avoided suspicion by Albus and the Ministry alike if indeed his sister was married to someone Albus knew as an old associate of Tom's?
