queenliz2fr

Also Harry and Theodor are descendants of Dick Turpin's partners in crime, Stephen Potter and Robert Nott.

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The dates would also make sense because they part of the generation born immediately after the statute of secrecy was established. They grew up in households with generally anti-Muggle sentiments they thought they could make a quick buck if they used their unfair advantage to rob Muggles.

cacue23

Eh, aren’t they all characters of a book called “Rookwood”?

(my comment: there is also Ambrose Rookwood, but he was part of the Gunpowder Plot, so roughly hundred years earlier).

Fizzlestix83

Now that Horrible Histories song is stuck in my head