I was sitting down one day whillst reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blooded Prince and it occoured to me that Godrics hollow might infact have belong to Godric Gryffindor i may be wrong however
If you have any thoughts or opinions id'e love to here them

Whilst it is a nice coincidince I don't really think it is relevant in any to Godric Gryffindor.

Godrics Hollow sounds cool though lol. When I was little and the first two books came out I used to think Godric Gryffindor would be reborn there or something. I was little. Lol.

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I think there might be something to this as I have wondered almost the same thing. JK once in a interview said that Dumbledores name bears looking in to. The fact of the use of the name Godric I was wondering if maybe this cottage as it was called a cottage not a house,manor or estate was a summer or vacation home of Dumbledores and if Dumbledore was relation to Godric Gryffindore after all he has the sword of Gryffindore. The only reason I didn't name the sorting hat as it appears that it has been with Hogwarts for hundreds of years.

i hadnt thought of that until i saw the title of this thread and i think it is an interesting idea!!

godrics hollow is a small village which would have been inhabited by muggles as well as the potters. it could be that godric gryfinndor used to live in the village maybe it is just a conicidence but i guess we will find out in bk7 because harry plans on returning to godrics hollow to see where he used to live

You know I have been thinking for a while now hat all the founders have there own areas I mean there was the chamber of secrets and now godrics hollow

Yeah.. Nothing in the HP-books is a coincidence. We know that and have seen that several times in the previous books.
I think That Harry might find something thats usefull there, that have something to do with Godric. And maybe something that can help him fight Voldemort. (Horcruex perhaps?)

JKR said in an interview that the village is indeed Godric (Gryffindor's) Hollow. What that means to the story is yet to be seen. Maybe there is a possession of Gryffindor there that is a horcrux.

I like your idea samsmom it is posibble that a horcrux may have been placed in Godrics Hollow, yet there is a question as to whether Tom Riddle did rerturn to Godrics Hollow after he was Deafeted for the first time, it may have brought shame upon him to return to the place of his first Defeat.
I would hold onto that idea for the seventh book.

hey,
its too cool, blimey, i didnt notice it. its true that 'nothing in JKR's books is a coincidence'. i think that its possibly true that Godrics Hollow was named after Godric Gryffindor, but, does it mean that he once lived there. i dont know any thing but, i sure know that Gryffindor will hold a very important place in the 7th book plot.

Didnt Tom/Voldemort make his horcruexes before he went after harry. And went after him with the intention to make a horcrues of harrys death.
I just dont think that JKR would have sent Harry to Godrics hollow just to viit his parents graves, maybe he sees something that woulendt mean anything to the muggles but nit magic people. something from THE Godric?

ok so godrics hollow is definatley godric gryfinndors hollow, but why?

so he may have lived there thousands of years ago or maybe some wizard named it after him because he was so famous

i dont know there could be other reasons

also if there is a horcrux from gryfinndor it is likely to be at the potters house or in the village somewhere because LV never had to enter the potters house because he was allowed into godrics hollow so harry could find something when he goes back

I am stumped on this one sorry

Godric isn't a very common name.
And for JKR to put it in her book twice seems a little queer.
Because when you write books you usually try and not use the same name twice. It's too confusing and it seems old. So there seems to be a connection there.
For her to put in Godric twice withour a connection seems to me like a mistake on her behalf.
(no offence to her, i love the books!!)
So i think there is a connection.
Like i said. it isn't a common name.

Yes, i agree with you TheManekin it isn't a very common name and there is indeed a link between Godric's Hollow and Godric Gryfindorr.

Maybe even (This is just a wild guess.) James Potter could have been related to Godric Gryfindorr and Godrics Hollow could have been past down in the family.

Thanks.

james potter cant have been related to godric gryfinndor because that would mean harry is as well, and JKR has confirmed that harry isnt the heir of gryfinndor

i agree that it could have been passed down though from some kind of old family line like grimauld place maybe, harry owns it but isnt related to sirius-directly i mean.

could be couldn't be

we'll have to wait and see.
the place probly shows harr ysomething important.
i thik it mite just be a nice coiidence

reading the other blogs i started to think that mabe harry is the heir of gryfindor. this would be another reason why lv would want to go after harry(significent death). if this is true then maybe harry can control some weird creature, like tom riddle in cos. and maybwe this creatue will help him defeat lord vlodemort.

The first time i read where harry and his parents lived, i related it with Godric Gryfinddor... And i think that's an important this in the plot...
Let's waut to see what JKR have to tell us...

As Fawkes soared away at the end of Half-Blood Prince, it may be that when Harry arrives at Godric's Hollow that Fawkes will reappear.

There is also that odd phenomenon with the flames rising from Dumbledore's tomb. It's possible that Dumbledore will be reincarnated at Godric's hollow in some relation to Fawkes.

The way Dumbledore died reinforces the fact that he is simply human, and even with his extraordinary powers he could not escape death, but maybe there is something more to him.

It would be an interesting twist if something happens at Godric's Hollow with Fawkes and/or Dumbledore.

After all, where did Fawkes go?

I honestlythuoght bout this 1!!!!!!!

I mean he could have been born there or the Potters might be realated 2 the Gryfinddors?????

I know this is probebly a stupid question but Voldermort's amazingly powerfull so even as he was dieing at G.H he could have made sure that his stongest connection to S.S(Parseltounge) didn't go off to Harry?????
I don't know if anyone knows but about 1,2 or 3 years ago a journalist said in the papers that he thought Voldie would in and Harry would die so maybe he was right and Voldie had a plan from the start how 2 beat Harry and him getting away every time was part of his plan and now he'll finish it off and kill Harry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soz I know that had zip 2 do with G.H but I just wanted 2 ask that

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I agree with Manikan.Godric is NOT a very commen name is it?And JKR did say that Godrics Hollow has something to do with Godric Gryffindor.Maybe they are somehow related to Godric Gryffindor...I wonder if all of the Potters were in Gryffindor?

I don't think that there is any connection between Godrics Hollow and Godric Gryffindor at all.
It wouldn't make any sense at all, would it????? I believe its just a coincidence.

First of all, Godric's hollow is a village not a cottage as someone else said [JK said it in an interview].
Also, JK hasn't denied rumours that Godric Gryffindor is related to the Potters.
I don't think JK would use godric twice without reason, and am 90% sure that godric's hollow was names after GG, possibly because he used to live there.

I think there is definately a connection.

Godrics Hollow I think was Godrick Griffindors family home.

I don't know about anyone else but I think that Harry will turn out to be a desendant of Godric Griffindors.

In the chamber of secrets when Harry pulled out the sword from the hat Dumbledore told him only a true Griggindor could have done this.

I could be wrong but I think Dumbledore may have been hinting about Harry being a desendant of Godric Griffindor.

Of Course I could be entirely wrong and it be that he was talking about the Griffindor House.

Harry also has a close link with Fawkes the pheonix. Could Fawkes actually be Godric Griffindor is there not something about pheonix's been born from the death of a Great Wizard could it have been born out of the death of Gdric Griffindor.

Fawkes has on several occassions came to the help of Harry. In the chamber of secrets when it helped attack the basalisk.

It also healed the wound left on the Harry from the basalisk fang.

And the time in Goblet Of Fire when Harry was retelling the story of what had happened in the graveyard, Fawkes again healed Harry from the venom of the Acramantula in the maze and the cut from Wormtail when he was getting the blood to bring back Voldermort.

Has Godric been looking after his desendant or am I on completely the wrong path.

I think Gordrics Hollow has no relation to Gordric Gryffindor but it may have a horcrux some where there ?

I don't think there's a horcrux there. Voldemort'd expect Harry to go t Godric's Hollow to take a look and he certainly wouldn't place a horcrux there for Harry to find. But there's a possibility that voldemort thinks it's the last place Harry would suspect.

When I had read about Godrics Hollow I immediatly thought Godric Gryffindor but I had thought that to be obvious. Anyway we know that we are going to find out more about Harrys parents and grandparents in the seventh book and also dumbledors past. I think harry fill find this stuff out when he is at Godrics Hollow.

People need to read each others previous posts! Some posters have already tried said this, but others just are not reading/listening. So here it is again, so hopefully people will finally pay attention!!

JKR, on an interview with CBBC...

( CBBC Newsround Interview with JKRowling. BBC (10-23-2002))
Q: The significance of the place where Harry and his parents lived - the first name...
J. K. Rowling: Godric Gryffindor. Very good. You're a bit good, you are, aren't you. I'm impressed.

The above was quoted by Samsmom, yet people still seem to be saying "there is no significance between the place name and Gryffindor". Yes, there is! JKR has said so. So that clears that point up.

As for a horcrux for Gryffindor, if you read back 472 of Half Blood Prince (UK version)...

(Quote from Half Blood Prince)
"...I am confident, however, that the only known relic of Gryffindor remains safe" Dumbledore pointed his blackened fingers to the wall behind him, where a ruby-encrusted sword reposed within a glass case.


I know Dumbledore isn't perfect, but I don't think he'd make such a confident statement on the topic of Horcrux whereabouts without being absolutly sure. I personally believe that ther eis no Gryffindor horcrux, based on Dumbledores belief.

Aye if people read the previous posts they would notice these things lol. As stated since JKR more or less confirmed that it is Godric Gryffindor's hollow then it is...she is after all the final authority on these things . Now as to whether Harry is or isn't a relation to Godric. While JKR said that Harry isn't the heir she didn't say that he wasn't related in some way. I think he may be related whether through marriage or blood to the Godric Gryffindor line. This would satisfy JKR saying that he isn't the heir and also DD saying that only a true Gryffindor could pull that out of the hat.

As for a horocrux there. I don't think so. I believe that Voldy had 5 horocrux's (his soul being six) and was going to use Harry's death to make the 7th. This brings up the question of whether he ever made a seventh. We know that was his intention all along but it seems to me that if Harry's death was where he would make the seventh then he never made the seventh one. Mabye while at the hollow Harry will remember this. If so and it's accurate it will put Harry on the right path as to how many Horocrux's are left?

And one last thought. We know DD seems to have a habit of making places safe...i.e. the protection at Privett Drive, the protections at Hogwarts, Grimmwauld Place etc. It would seem reasonable to think that that may well have been DD's place and the Potter's were staying there after it was made unplottable and every othee known thing DD could come up with. So still a lot to think about till the final book comes out. Darn that JKR for being so slippery

OK, since everyone agreed that Godric's Hollow once belonging to Godric Gryffindor - this is quite improbable, and in the book, it'll probably turn out to be way different, but anyway - I was just thinking after I read kyp's post and remembered that Dumbledore was the one that told the Potters to hide in Godric's Hollow. So that means that the cottage they stayed in originally belonged to Dumbledore. But how had he gotten it in the first place? What if Dumbledore was related to Godric and the house got handed down to him? However, if so, that means that Harry isn't related to Gryffindor, because I do think JKR said somewhere that Dumbledore and Harry aren't related. But maybe she just said that Dumbledore isn't Harry's grandfather... I don't quite remember.

Anyway, I understand that it is most likely that Dumbledore's parents just decided to build a cottage in a village that Godric Gryffindor used to live in, but anyway, it's just a thought.

My thoughts on several other matters: I don't think there is a Gryffindor horcrux, like kyp explained. Also, JKR said in an interview that Harry is not Gryffindor's heir. However, she was caught off guard by the interviewer when she said that, so people like to argue about that. However, I think it is likely that Dumbledore is Gryffindor's heir, because he's brave and all that and JKR hasn't said otherwise!

just as i read it, i knew almost imeddietly(spelling, sorry) that it was Gryffindor's place, i mean it fits, and how did Harry know that that is where his parents lived? but yeah, it fits because both of his parents were in Gryffindor, and would that also be a whole wizard village? and where is it in Britian? I'm confused.

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I think that's possible. I agree- nothing has ever been a coincidence with Harry Potter.

I also think that maybe, just maybe, Harry's first home being in Godric's Hollow might have something to do with him being in Gryffindor- that is, if the Hollow and Godric Gryffindor are connected.

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That's a really good thought...i was thinking the exact same thin when i was reading HBP...i really think it will hold secrets about lily potter though...i kno there is something special about her

It is, or at least it has to do with godric griffindor, for the simple reason that harry, lived
i mean i have always thought that there was a horcrux in the potters house the day they were killed, over the course of the books we have learned that voldemort is almost as smart as albus was,meaning he left something there in case he died, like a horcrux,and so when the house was destroyed someone, maybe even sirius,took the horcrux and hid it,maybe.......
i think in book seven we will go back to that night when the potters were killed and find out there is more to that house than meets the eye.

While I agree there are some loose ends in HP world, I don't think this is one of them. While Lily Potter's Blood protected Harry via love, I believe there is more to it than that. They didn't live in Godric's Hollow by accident--it was a place of protection--and that protection relates back to blood--just as Harry having to stay 2 weeks yearly with Aunt Petunia continued that protection until his 17th birthday.

wow i never knew it wasn't "official" that godric's hollow meant gryffindor's...i think it is pretty obvious that the it means that gryffindor had probably to do something with the place at some point in time.

well it is probably named godric hollow because he did something there...maybe something awesome which can in some crazy way help harry?

Wjile it is a slime chance that they can be realted, it is possible...
why else would they be spelled the same and that they are pronounced the same and all that jazz...
so while i say yes, i also say no cause its a slim chance to be true, if that makes any sence at all.

Ok well I know that this is from awhile ago and somebody probably answered it already, but Harry knew that was where his parents lived because Hagrid or Dumbledore or someone probably mentioned it to him.
~Ginny~

I think it may be the same. Again its just not something we will know for sure til the books come out. I think its def. possibility that most people have thought of.

Maybe Godric's Hollow does have to do with Godric Gryffindor. If it does, maybe the Gryffindor horcrux is there. Harry may have to go home to where his parents died in order to find it. that would also be a great place for LV to hide a horcrux, knowing that it would've been a significant kill if he had succeeded in killing Harry. And it was a very important place in his life after all, Lily and James were definitely among the top of his list of enemies. Just a thought.

It would have been a good idea to hide a horcrux there but we know that voldy could not make a horcrux.when he got his powers back he made nagini the last horcrux.
I believe when DD said that the only known relic of gryffindor is the sword,he might have atleast checked his native village

This place must be important. JKR hinted it in that inteview with CBBC. Somebody posted that here I think so I won't post it again. But the place must have some significance to Godric Gryffindor. Harry could be a relative of Godric or something, but this leaves me to think that he may be the last horcrux. He could be the thing from the Gryffindor House. Also, as it has been pointed out, Godric isn't a very common name and JKR has a tendancy to not just spring something on us without giving a little further introduction to it subtly and then making it important. The book better answer all these questions..*sigh*.

I've always thought that something is hidden at Godrics hollow, because you can hide something in a hollow, right? and ive always thought that it was probably a horcrux made out of something of godric Gryffindor, but as crazymaniacgirl said, dumbledore seemed to think that the only heirloom of Gryffindor was the sword. But what if there is some other object of Godric Gryffindor, or an heirloom of any of the other founders of hogwarts hidden in the hollow of godrics hollow?

Alright... so I was looking through this forum and a crazy thought jumped into my head...
We all agree that Godric's Hollow is related to Godric Gryffindor... right? And we also agree that there is a horcrux out there that might belong to Godric Gryffindor... Some of us are also thinking that the horcrux is in Godric's Hollow... Now... I thought... could the horcrux be Godric's Hollow???!!! Think about it... Why would a town be named after a hollow? A hollow that belonged to a founder? Doesn't make sense does it?! The village must be named Godric's Hollow because it hides Godric's Hollow, which I think is the horcrux... Does that seem a reasonable opinion...? And also... this is a bit different and not that likely, but could Hallows be related to Hollow in any way???

I really don't think that there is going to be a horcrux there. I mean didn't they say that Voldemort was planning to make his final horcrux with Harry's death? So, I'm pretty sure that somebody has said this already, but anyways, yea, so Voldemort wouldn't have had the horcrux yet when he arrived at the Hollow and then he was defeated, for lack of another word, before he could have made one. Yea, so I kinda doubt that made any sense so I'm really sorry.

~Ginny~

I agree as well to the name of Godric's Hollow being related to Godric Gryffindorr. It really does make me think about going back to reading the books and finding key points leading to this. This is a very good possiblity!!

OF COURSE!!! EVEN JK ROWLING MENTIONED IT TO HER EDITOR. SHE ASKED HER IF SHE NOTICED LIKE A COUPLE OTHER FANS DID, AND SHE DIDNT AND SHE WAS SURPRISED

I agree with samsmom! I haven't seen the interview where JKR said that but I do agree that because it is Godric Gryffindor's Hollow, then there might be an object belonging to him there. And that could be a horcrux.