User:Danlina/Gaunt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] The Gaunt Family

The Gaunt family are fictional characters from the Harry Potter book serise by J.K. Rowling. They first appear in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

Marvolo Gaunt is the patriarch of the House of Gaunt. He, along with his son Morfin and daughter Merope, are the last remaining pure-blood descendants of Hogwarts Founder Salazar Slytherin. Marvolo is fiercly proud of thier presigeous ancestry, although they currently live in squalid poverty due to the Gaunt Family fortune being squandered away generations before. Marvolo does however proudly possess two heirlooms of great worth, both items having belonged to Salazar Slytherin himself.

During a visit from the Ministry Official Bob Ogden