Lestrange?! Honestly, I should’ve known the moment I saw the name Rodolphus 😆 Are we going to see more wizarding families from the Harry Potter universe? Or are we sticking with just a few for now? Because I have a feeling Aleric might be part of one of those families too. 👀
It worked out perfectly, because Radulf/Ranulf/Rodulph/Rodolphus is actually a common name in the late 10th-early 11th century, so I got to use that family name and didn't have to fudge the history. You're right about Aluric, and you'll definitely see more of them in later chapters, once the rest of the students come into the story. I essentially used the Sacred 28 to help me build out character lists because - as disgusting as its purpose was - it gives me a list of family names that have really long genealogies. Have fun playing Spot The Family Name in later chapters!
Honestly, not many of the family trees in the Sacred 28 might actually be that old. As far as I know, the oldest families being tracked were the Gaunts, who descended from the Slytherins, but when the list was made, there were no active members of the Slytherin family 🧐. Honestly, I’m having so much fun diving into the fic 😎—hunting down surnames and catching little clues is so much fun <(￣︶￣)>
Whew! I totally thought I answered all my reviews, but I spent the end of August recovering from comicon, so apparently I read these and then forgot to answer. =P I didn't use the whole Sacred 28, but I went through it linguistically as well as socially and economically and asked myself 1. which surnames are derived from sources that *could* be that old, and 2. which names carry the respect and the bank account that would have accumulated from being that old. So, for instance, any names that have French/Norman origin can't come into the story until after 1066 (so, my fourth book). And the Shafiq family (probably) wouldn't have entered England until at least the Crusades era, and in my personal opinion, probably later. I'm letting the linguistics take the lead on this one.
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