I confess I'm still confounded that there are so few married couples who did live in for any length of time. Fewer than thirty, she thinks? In all this time?
And the founders are not among those. I suppose they were well in age by the time they set about this project. All had staked their claims professionally and established their reputations. Slytherin and Gryffindor, certainly, and Helga Hufflepuff, as well. But you're right, the stories are that Rowena Ravenclaw brought up her daughter here. And that, as you say, is quite the point: none of them had a spouse whose name comes trippingly to the tongue. Salazar and Sophonisba, it is not. Nor Godric and Griselle. Nor... Hm.
I've not read Deller's book. I suppose I ought, but to be frank, it's not something I've been yearning to do. When I finish this long study of Hypatia, perhaps. Though by then, I'll want nothing more challenging than the next of those Magdalena Wright mysteries.
Entertaining that this research of ours is turning up such a lot of titillating stories. Irma had another last evening--about a student, a young witch, who allowed herself to be seduced by a roguish older lad only to learn that her family had placed her under a surreptitious chastity charm that exceeded its brief by quite a severe degree.
The families involved and the Headmaster all concluded it was a matter of the charm's having been amplified by some aspect of the castle's magic, but the upshot was the unfortunate young people found themselves joined by a life bond so restrictive they could not ever be parted by so much as a foot of space. Of course, they were forced to leave school since there was no provision for students to live under such conditions, and no one wished to trip the charm by forcing them to attend their separate lessons or sleep in separate dormitories or... well, the requirements of the spell were rather more compromising than that and were quite beyond the scope of the school's accommodations.
I suppose someone probably has written a novel with that pretext, or I'd be tempted myself.
Oh. No, Irma didn't mention one way or the other about her research into your family's traditional rites. I feel certain she'd have said if her search had come to naught, so perhaps she's still tracking those questions. I'll ask if I see her later, but I shouldn't think it worth pestering your family yet. You will need to call on them for so many other favours in the months ahead.
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Date: 2012-10-18 06:28 pm (UTC)And the founders are not among those. I suppose they were well in age by the time they set about this project. All had staked their claims professionally and established their reputations. Slytherin and Gryffindor, certainly, and Helga Hufflepuff, as well. But you're right, the stories are that Rowena Ravenclaw brought up her daughter here. And that, as you say, is quite the point: none of them had a spouse whose name comes trippingly to the tongue. Salazar and Sophonisba, it is not. Nor Godric and Griselle. Nor... Hm.
I've not read Deller's book. I suppose I ought, but to be frank, it's not something I've been yearning to do. When I finish this long study of Hypatia, perhaps. Though by then, I'll want nothing more challenging than the next of those Magdalena Wright mysteries.
Entertaining that this research of ours is turning up such a lot of titillating stories. Irma had another last evening--about a student, a young witch, who allowed herself to be seduced by a roguish older lad only to learn that her family had placed her under a surreptitious chastity charm that exceeded its brief by quite a severe degree.
The families involved and the Headmaster all concluded it was a matter of the charm's having been amplified by some aspect of the castle's magic, but the upshot was the unfortunate young people found themselves joined by a life bond so restrictive they could not ever be parted by so much as a foot of space. Of course, they were forced to leave school since there was no provision for students to live under such conditions, and no one wished to trip the charm by forcing them to attend their separate lessons or sleep in separate dormitories or... well, the requirements of the spell were rather more compromising than that and were quite beyond the scope of the school's accommodations.
I suppose someone probably has written a novel with that pretext, or I'd be tempted myself.
Oh. No, Irma didn't mention one way or the other about her research into your family's traditional rites. I feel certain she'd have said if her search had come to naught, so perhaps she's still tracking those questions. I'll ask if I see her later, but I shouldn't think it worth pestering your family yet. You will need to call on them for so many other favours in the months ahead.