View archived discussions on this essay here. Harry Potter was born in 1990. Harry Potter the character, that is. J.K. Rowling said she thought him up on a train journey in 1990, and then spent the ...
The Gaunt family was a pure-blood family who had a tendency of marrying their cousins to keep their bloodline pure. The family were also direct ancestors to one of Hogwarts' founders, Salazar ...