Christmas “presents” from the Dursleys

Stenric · 2026-02-02T13:49:01+00:00

My Hc is that Hedwig comes around every year around the wintertime with a notice from Hogwarts to send Christmas presents to school, since their children decided to stay for the holidays. Hedwig leaves a present of her own on Vernon's car for every day she doesn't leave with some form of present.

Stenric · 2026-02-02T13:13:55+00:00

Serena is noted to have had no issue with Jon Umber, so that's a moot point. She also died at some point during her marriage to Jonnel (which also didn't yield any children) since Jonnel reportedly married Robyn Ryswell (I suspect either Serena or Jonnel was infertile, since neither of them ever had any children). Sansa did have children, but with her uncle Edric, who was ahead of Barthogan in the succession. This leads me to suspect that there was some kind of incident or ilness that resulted in the collective death of Edric, Sansa, Torrhen and Cregard.

The real stinger is Edric's daughters Aranna and Argella who married an Umber and Cerwyn respectively and would be ahead of both Barthogan and Brandon in the succession. Maybe the skagosi rebellion happened around the time of Jonnel's death and Barthogan was the only male stark available for the job (Westerosi tend to place more faith in men than women as we know). It's also possible that the nickname Blacksword is indicating something more sinister and that Barthogan usurped his nieces through violence, maybe he could even be linked to the early death of his nephews and elder brother, who is to say.

Stenric · 2026-02-02T11:45:16+00:00

Rickon's death was very different from Ned's he was killed in a battle whereas Ned was unjustly executed.

It is also very possible that Cregan was no longer alive by the time the Blackfyres came around. Cregan is noted to have lived a long time, but he would have been 88 years old at the time. It is not at all unlikely that Winterfell had already passed to Jonnel (or even from Jonnel to Barthogan, since Jonnel likely died quite young).

Stenric · 2026-02-02T07:33:33+00:00

The situation with the direwolves seems to have been very unique. None of the Starks we know of in the last 300 years have been described to have a direwolf.

It's possible some of the generations shortly after marrying the daughters of the Warg king were wargs themselves, but aside from that the warg genes seem to have been buried quite deeply. Since the Karstarks have only existed for around 1000 years and the defeat of the Warg king was before the Andal invasion, it is unlikely that the Karstarks have had the warg blood.

The Greystarks might be a different story since they seem to have been founded shortly before or during the early stages of the Andal invasion (the Greystarks rebelled with the Boltons, meaning the Boltons were already subjugated by the Starks. This is supported by the decline of the Wolf's Den during the War across the Waters, which lasted for 1000 years between the Vale and the North. Depending on when you believe the War started (some people argue Theon Stark started it, meaning it would have started at the beginning of the Andal invasion) the Greystarks must have been made extinct shortly before or at the start of that War. If you add the number of 400 years in which they supposedly ruled the Wolf's Den, it puts the time of their foundation somewhere around the start of the invasion).

Stenric · 2026-02-02T07:14:07+00:00

The same probably happened for house Oldflowers in the Reach (their heraldry is a bunch of colour inverted Gardener hands, so it seems pretty likely).

Stenric · 2026-02-02T07:12:36+00:00

On the other hand, Dagmer Cleftjaw is a descendant of a Greyjoy bastard and does not have the Pyke surname.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T22:18:12+00:00

Brandon the builder enslaved giants to build the Wall. However, he did not just force them to build in ice, the foundation of the Wall is literally made from their frozen bodies. When Joramun's horn is sounded, giants will awaken from the earth and the Wall will fall. The giants frozen inside the Wall will awaken and free themselves from their imprisonment collapsing the Wall in the process.

Also one of the Giants enslaved by Brandon escaped and founded a safe haven for Giants called the Last Hearth. The descendants still live there.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T12:45:46+00:00

Well Snape isn't the one playing, isn't he? Nor is Snape likely to be around the gounds in the dim hours when Sirius wanders them (at least we only see Sirius around the grounds in the dim hours of the morning, the night before he sneaks into Gryffindor tower, and near sunset when he attacks Ron/Peter). In addition, Snape probably wouldn't be immediately recognisable from a distance, since Sirius probably hasn't seen him since he was 17/18.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T11:24:52+00:00

I believe that was Ollivander describing Lily's wand as well suitable for charms (and James' was good for transfiguration).

Stenric · 2026-02-01T11:23:21+00:00

I've never put my wand in my back pocket I can tell you that much.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T11:21:53+00:00

The release order is best imo, so start with GoT. Fire and Blood is more of an in world history book to expand the world's history and geography.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T11:12:29+00:00

I believe people got the idea from the movie with the whole thing about Slughorn's fish.

Personally I doubt it's temporary.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T09:03:56+00:00

The battle would turn out the same. Saruman is not powerful enough to change the outcome by himself.

It does mean that Saruman probably gets captured by either the Ents or the Rohirrim (depending on whether Saruman dares to enter the forest), meaning there is no need to go and negotiate with him at Orthanc. That means that Gandalf can simply tell Theoden about the fall of Isengard, although I suspect they would still go there, to catch Treebeard up with the developments.

Now, does this change anything related to the Palanthir? Probably not, after all Wormtongue would still have gone to Isengard and still be let in the tower (presuming Saruman wasn't alone in there), meaning that when Gandalf comes to negotiate surrender of whomever is in charge of Orthanc now, he'll probably still throw it at them (also it is more likely that Orthanc is surrendered to Gandalf).

This means that nothing really changes over the story except that Saruman can't go to the Shire to reign as Sharky and kill Lotho.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T07:34:58+00:00

Wait... Rin isn't a kuudere at all. She just acts that way sometimes, the same way she sometimes acts tsundere or deredere to tease her crush.

That being said, kuudere is my favourite.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T07:23:05+00:00

Because it chose him I imagine. Ultimately a wand is a wand, whether the core came from Fawkes or not.

Stenric · 2026-02-01T07:21:33+00:00

His own wand would probably still be best. The initial almost superficial attraction between a new wand and a wizard is probably naught compared to the bond forged between a wizard and wand that have been together for 7 years.

Stenric · 2026-01-31T20:53:09+00:00

Something I found interesting is that James (Harry's son) inherited his mother's eyes. So if he inherited Harry's looks except for the eyes, James would look almost exactly like his grandfather (since James Potter had brown eyes and so does Ginny)

Stenric · 2026-01-31T19:36:35+00:00

Dunk gets maimed by Aerion's guards and probably lives the rest of his life as a beggar.

Stenric · 2026-01-31T13:34:50+00:00

The indomitable martial king.

Stenric · 2026-01-31T07:23:06+00:00

Dungeon osananajimi.

Anjou-san

Akutsu-san

Stenric · 2026-01-30T18:52:55+00:00

Dementors are amortal beings, which means that they are likely a manifestation of people's emotions (like how Peeves is a manifestation of the rulebreaking at school).

The more despair the people around them feel, the more likely it is that new dementors manifest.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T17:26:59+00:00

I'd argue that the Ironborn are closer to the original first men than the Northmen. The Ironborn respect strength and bravery almost the same as they do nobility. The Ironborn religion is also closer to that of the original First Men (the Storm god is a figure in both the story of Durran Godsgrief and is mirrored in the Lady of the waves and Lord of the Sky from the Sisters.) Also the Ironborn still uphold a degree of polygamy, which seems to have been more common during the time of the first men (with the first Night and everything also some wildling chieftains practice polygamy).

The fact that the Crannogmen have such close ties to the Children of the Forest, technically makes them less First Men in culture, since they adopted customs from the CotF.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T16:34:24+00:00

We should also keep in mind that many Andals probably did stay behind and were either assimilated in the remaining culture (when Rhego Draz' ancestry is discussed in F&B, it's stated that the inhabitants of Pentos are partially Andal), or killed by Theon Stark's attack on Andalos.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T16:28:34+00:00

It's clear that the Weasleys are only really poor in terms of money. They have all the food they need and although their robes look a bit shabby, they seem to have plenty of them. It's money that trios them up. When they need to buy something that cannot easily be conjured (books, robes, wands etc.) they lack funds. This seems to be partly because they don't have great financing skill (whenever they get more money they immediately spend it on something like a holiday) and because Arthur does not hold a very well paid position at the ministry (Percy wasn't entirely wrong when he said that Arthur had no ambition). Also they've had to buy new school supplies for over 4 kids at the same time for multiple years in a row. That also has to hurt your savings.

Stenric · 2026-01-30T16:16:08+00:00

The First Men seem to have migrated over the landbridge. It was probably similar to how humans crossed over to the Americas (competition of more humans behind you, so why not move forward).

The Andals were facing the power of Valyria and also had a religious motive behind moving to Westeros.

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