POTTER’S FIELD ; OR, WE KNOW WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED : HARRY POTTER AND THE HOLLOW CROWN

You know those times when you don’t know that you know something, but then you find yourself typing it out loud and suddenly everything makes sense?
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollow Crown”
#darkepiphany

Okay dude. I’m afraid you missed the point. Most people did. Slytherin were a red herring. Yes, they’re easy to hate. Yes, they do “Dark Magic”. They are Snakes. Green. Slimy. Watery. “Féminine”…. In fact, they are racialised : they are the French Normans, the “nobility”. Whereas Gryffindor are the Golden Boys. Proper English Pluck and Courage. Manly. Straight (Slytherin are SUPER queer). I bet you Slytherin includes trans and enbi folks. Gryffindor is all Trad Wife, White Supremacy, “Solar” Energy. Gryffindor is hetero normative patriarchy. Slytherin is Serpent Power. What’s in a name? Well, “Gryffin” (Head of Eagle, Body of Lion, “archaic Y”, Symbol of Sun, Power, Royalty, “Love n Light”; in a word, Magic Jesus, like Aslan on Steroids) “d’Or” (Made of Gold. Literally. Like Trump’s Toilet). Slytherin (Slither-in, penetration by subterfuge, but again with “archaic Y”, though this also gives the alternate : “Sly-there-in” : Sly Like a Fox, Cunning Like a Snake : The Serpent offers the Gnosis of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil ; the Griffin jealously guards the Tree of Life).

Gryffindor is super WASPy. Slytherin is fembois and Drag Kings dancing in graveyards together. Change. My. Mind. 🖤

I started to understand this thanks to this amazing 2002 (!!!) essay by Farah Mendlesohn.
https://www.academia.edu/…/Crowning_the_King_Harry…

Full Disclosure : I say this as a committed Ravenclaw, who despite her affiliation, Sorts into Slytherin EVERY GODS DAMN TIME.

The Miraculous Merri-Todd Webster (who spins a Wicked Thread, and sits in the Centre, catching Flies), suggests the following : Incisive Potter “meta”, “The Four Familiars” https://archiveofourown.org/works/1045982

And oh my Lords and Ladies it is DELICIOUS! Here’s a Word-Cunning little gloss : if you go the place of the Cailleach (“the Veiled One”, originally), which is in the Land of the Iverni, from whom our esteemed Editor and Hierophant has his name and origin, and sits in-between, you will find a little village called “Eyeries”. This will make the Anglo-Saxon think of Eagles. However, the slant-looking Celt of the Crooked Writing (rather than Iarm-Bearla, the “Iron Speech”) will tell you that this is an English transliteration and deformation of “na hAori”, from singular “Aoradh”…. It means, “The Adorations”, and the Sassanach will tell you, once again, that this is because of it being the birthplace of Saint Kentigern. But the skew-headed Iverni will tell you (if you cross his palm with silver) that no, this was the birthplace of the Cult of the Cailleach. Her Hagstone sits upon the Headland at Coulagh Bay, where she was turned to stone, not by Kentigern, as the Hagiography has it, but rather from boredom, as she waited for her seventh huband Manannan Mac Lir to come home from his Wandering the Waves in the West. If any of this is one word of lie, may I be struck down by lightning. Or rather, may my Source and Sourcebook, Malachas Ivernus, a curse upon his name, be covered with honey and rolled in bees …

And because the plural of anecdote is not data (rather, anechdoche), here is a little tale that might tickle your fancy : https://thehollowbehindthehearthstone.com/a-page-from…/

Do not call the Irish Saints and Scholars, but rather Celts and Four-Faced Liars. All Celts are Liars, said the Celt. As for her own name, Merri-Todd Webster, I’ve always found Websters to weave most cunningly. And as they say : “what’s in a name?” … “well, Juliet, nomen ist omen” … “ha! Onanomastics is for wankers!”

Do Not Believe Everything You Read Online: Google is your friend, an Actual Library, with Librarians, is your Mentor. This is the First Step on the Road to the Palace of Wisdom. (the next step is a “long, intense and reasonable derangement of all the senses” … INXS)

So what do you think? Slytherin are the “effeminate” Norman Nobility, whereas Gryffindor are the Salt of the Earth Saxons??? (cf. Gay Persians vs Very Hetero Spartans – hilarious irony – in Frank the Miller’s Tale 300)

(and really, who are the Real Fascists there?)

People THINK that the Slytherins are pretty Fashy, always making Rules, always telling everyone what to do … Nothing could be further from the Truth. That’s just what JKR WANTS you to think : actually, the Real Rules of Slytherin are : “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law” … I will fight on this. Whereas the Gryffindor Rules are “Dieu e(s)t mon Droit”.

The Real Ravenclaw Rules are “sicut SUPERIUS ET INFERIUS”, and the Real Hufflepuff Rules are “Servite Domina in Gaudium”….

(ugh …  I cannot Latin. I only can pretend. Suckibus Maximus. I chose Latin in Secondary School, but that year only three people did. So they cancelled the class forever. They put me in the much more “practical” Business Studies. I mean, practical for whom? I would have been much better served for my future in Occult Studies by Latin, Greek, Comparative Mythology, and Herbalism. However, I didn’t go to “that” type of school. They only exist in Strange Places that are Neither Here Nor There. Like Hedges …)

Let’s just be honest here: the Proper Faire for young Witchlings and Wizards in Training is Prydain, Earthsea, The Dark is Rising, The Owl Service… And so on. Potter’s Field is A Place of Death. We know where the bodies are buried…..

Merri-Todd, the Demon-Barber, sheds further light in her unpublished correspondence with the present author

“besides an old friend on LJ whose wife was a descendant of William the Conqueror, you’re the only person I know who’s correctly identified the Malfoys as Norman French. Although my headcanon is that *Salazar* Slytherin, with his Iberian forename, was actually a Moor. With a name like Godric, of course Gryffindor was Saxon. Helga belongs to the Danes who came between the Saxons and the Normans, and Rowena by default is the actual Briton, the Celt.”

-Merri-Todd Webster, letter to Jill Liebowitz c/o Malachas Ivernus, 27 July 2020 (The Hollow Collective: Complete and Unexpurgated Correspondence, 2001-2025, Hollow Press, Hidden Library Special Edition, Paris-New York-Trieste, 2032)

Oh my Sainted Aunt! FINALLY someone who understands! Here’s the thing : you’re clearly right about Salazar Slytherin. A Moor, or a Marrano, or Maghrebi-Sephardic Jew. THAT was the thing that I have been dancing around mentioning earlier. But there, I’ve said it. Slytherin are also Jews. The Gringott’s Goblins are a Gross Anti-Semitic Stereotype. The “Slytherins as Sneaky Jews” is a Subtle One, that just “slithers in”, so to speak. Stop and think about this for a moment, and substitute everything you’ve ever heard from the Official Channels about Slytherins with the words “the Jews”. The mind boggles, does it not? The Half-Blood-Libel …

“There is no ‘Jewish Conspiracy’. There is, however, an Anti-Semitic Conspiracy … And that, my friends, is the biggest bait and switch in history.” – Malachas Ivernus, “The Devil’s Primer”, from The Collected Workings of Malachas Ivernus, Vol. VIII.

However, “Rowena” being Celtic. I must quibble : Rowena is a Saxon name too. I’ve checked. I met her. She DOES have dark hair, but still, I think a Saxon. At least according to Walter Scott.

I hear you saying “Dangit, at least one of the Founders should be Celtic. But Rowena was the daughter of Hengest who married Vortigern, if I remember my Historia aright.”

(That’s Geoffrey of Monmouth, if I remember mine … “You shut Mon-Mouth, how can you say: I go about things the wrong way. I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does.” – The Smiths, “How Soon is Now”, from Hatful of Hollow Crown)

Precisely. I believe that I have unravelled this Celtic knotwork, on the actual origins of Rowena Ravenclaw’s name ….

I would tend to agree with Merri-Todd Webster’s ana(leptic)lysis in “The Four Familiars”, though I add the wrinkle that “Rowena” is definitely a Saxon name … So how would it make sense that she be Brythonic? (which makes mythopoetic sense, of course). Perhaps, and I’m just going out on a limb here, her name is *not* actually Rowena Ravenclaw at all. I posit that this is an anglicisation of her Welsh-Irish name Rhonwen Rabháin-Claiomh, or Rabha-Claiomh. Rhonwen makes sense, as it comes from the Welsh “rhon”: “Spear”, “gwen”: “fair, white, blessed”. The Irish element, which to me denotes Gaelic parentage, though being raised in Wales, means either “Rabháin: “fit, torrent, outburst (esp. of speech)”, and “Claiomh”: “Sword”, or else “Rabha”: “serrated/saw”, and “Claiomh” : “Sword”. It makes a lot of sense to me that she would be “The White Blessed Spear of the Torrent of Sword Speech”, both for Alchemical and Pseudo-historical reasons.

Also, has anyone ever said anything about “Malfoy” meaning “mauvaise foi”? She accuses them of Sartrean Bad Faith …. The Iron-y is enough to make a Fae Flit …

Webster adds: “I know just enough French to have identified “Malfoy” as “bad faith” at first reading. When I was deep into the fandom, there was a never-completed series I liked called House of Ill Faith, and the same author later wrote a very strange series of stories riffing on “Malfoy” as “mal fee”, in which Draco’s grandfather is a trans woman who turns into a fairy queen bee… I think… I swear I’m not making this up, nor do I use recreational drugs.”

Honestly, this all sounds this ALL sounds Totes Legitimus, to use the Legal Latin term. I guess thanks to you, I’ve just discovered Alt Potter Studies. I presume that it is informed by A Radical Anarchist ideology, which maintains that when one’s creator is a Démiurge (as Rowling clearly is) one’s duty is to Storm the Castle of the Author-ity and return the Potterverse to the People. Clearly, not only did she despise her own creation, but it was also, ironically, ACTUALLY “A Trap” for unwary children, a House of Artifice and Confection, to fatten them all on Neo Liberal Anglo Saccharine Ideology, before feeding them to the Machine. Never mind. We can lead her own characters to rebel against her. It makes sense, though I’d never really spared a thought for it : Death-EATERS – this just means Catholics, I guess. Better that than Life-Eaters. “Vol de Mort” not the Theft, but the FLIGHT of Death. He is a demonised Psychopomp. If you believe in the Cold Christian Heaven, of course metempsychosis is heresy. So how’s this for a scalding take : Harry Potter is magically a cross between the War of the Two Dragons and the War of the Roses and the English Civil War, and the Jacobite Rebellion.
Aha, yes, in fact the Harry Potter Series is Occult Propaganda for Elizabeth I’s plan of establishing the Empire of the Unseen, parallel to the Temporal Empire of the Angles (if there happen to be Nine of them, I will shit myself). So, thus, JK Rowling’s work was masterminded by John Dee and Good Queen Bess nearly 500 years ago… Following from that, persecution of Catholics and Jews and Dissenters and Quakers, Witch Trials, the Flitting of the Fae Nobility. Shakespeare wrote a powerful counter narrative and hypersigil, but his Public Persona was murdered by Kit Marlowe, and he had to go into hiding, where he remains, probably in Glastonbury. Phew. Now I’m scaring myself. Better take a whiff of Ether and have a good lie down….

You may have heard more Outlandish Theories in the Dark Corners of the Potterverse ; to this I reply : “My dear, it is NOT meant to be Outlandish! It’s meant to be True!”

It has taken her some time, you see, to make her first Intervention here ; do not blame her, for she lives in New York, and the Plague, War, Death, and Famine stalk the streets on their Pale Horses.

But what a Maiden Night-Voyage, from Jill Liebowitz. We shall be digging up the bodies from the Potter’s Field for a long time to come.

Jill Liebowitz

Queer Hipster Goth Witch Social Justice Warrior Queen.

Night Gaunt. Hekate. Graveyard Dirt and Sour Jars.

Snake. Scorpio. The Devil XV. Slytherin. Every. Damn. Day.