Peverell Legacy
1544 – 1998
When the Wizengamot began in 1544, there were 20 family seats and 5 elected seats. Today, there are 40 family seats and 10 elected seats.
The original 20 families were Abbott, Black, Bones, Carrow, Fawley, Flint, Gaunt, Greengrass, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Longbottom, Nott, Peverell, Potter, Prewett, Ravenclaw, Rosier, Selwyn, Slytherin, and Yaxley.
The Chamber expanded in 1672 to add the Avery, Burke, Beaumont, Bulstrode, Crouch, Grey, Higgs, Jenkins, Lestrange, Malfoy, McKinnon, Ollivander, Parkinson, Prince, Ross, Rowle, Shacklebolt, Shafiq, Travers, and Weasley families.
Over the years, families died out and other families replaced them. Names like Crabbe, Chang, Dagworth, Davies, Diggory, Fortescue, Goyle, MacMillan, Meadowes, Patil, Rivers, Sinistra, Slughorn, and Wood joined the chamber.
As it stands, the Beaumont, Crabbe, Crouch, Dagworth, Gaunt, Grey, Higgs, Jenkins, Lestrange, Malfoy, McKinnon, Meadowes, Prince, and Ross lines have died out.
The Weasleys were unanimously voted to replace the Malfoys when their seat was removed after their last heir denounced the family name (the Weasleys had previously been removed in the mid-1800s due to a blood feud with House Malfoy).
The Peverells, as noted above, had been a part of this great chamber from its inception. As Antioch’s line had died off, it was Cadmus’ heirs that took up the family mantel.
That was until Cadmus’ last heir had only one child, a daughter. This was before the laws of inheritance were changed; a woman could not inherit the title and Ignotus’ line had already married into the Potters.
Melania Peverell married Thorfinn Gaunt in 1682.
The Peverell line was dead.
So, picture everyone’s surprise when the seat didn’t disappear, when the magic of the chamber wouldn’t allow a replacement to be selected.
Inheritance tests showed the Potters as Peverell Heirs but never recognized a single one as the rightful Lord.
The Peverell Lordship ring, unlike nearly every single other ring, was not crafted by the Goblins and could not be recalled.
The ring contained a very strange stone with an odd symbol etched into its surface. A circle inside a triangle with a line through it.
The family lore said the ring had belonged to one of the three brothers, that he’d crafted it himself and passed it down through the line. Though no one asked what exactly the stone was.
The ring became a Gaunt family heirloom and, over the centuries, even the passing mention that it had once belonged to one of three brothers was lost to time.
Not that many knew the famed “Three Brothers” had been Peverells in the first place.
It wasn’t until that ring called out to an aged wizard who was attempting to rid the world of a piece of a Dark Lord’s soul that anyone thought to ask what the stone was.
It wasn’t until a young man paused his walk to his death to press his lips against a golden snitch that the stone was fully claimed once again.
When that wizard left the Stone in the forest, Death himself went to fetch it, reset it into a ring, and deliver it to Gringotts for the young Lord to claim.
Now, for the first time in 300 years, a Lord sits in the Peverell chair in the Wizengamot chamber.