This idea caught Chadwick’s and Webster’s imaginations. There was a rumour, never confirmed by her family, that, unlike her sister Martha, Rionach was born with the ability to speak Parseltongue and that she was determined not to pass on Slytherin ancestry into the next generation (the American branch of the family was unaware that Gormlaith was not the last of the Gaunts, and that the line continued in England). On the contrary, their magical cores vibrated to the sound of the ancient language and, sensing danger to their masters, began to emit a low musical note, exactly as the Horned Serpent sounds danger. James was sent flying backwards across the clearing, hit a tree and was knocked out cold. This tree seemed testament to the fact that Slytherin’s wand, like his scattered descendants, encompassed both noble and ignoble. Delivering the latest news and official products from the Wizarding World and our partners. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies) (1) Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling (1) Include Characters Isolt Sayre (21) Merope Gaunt (15) Harry Potter (4) Salazar Slytherin (4) Sirius Black (3) Remus Lupin (3) Nymphadora Tonks (3) Albus Dumbledore (3) Original Characters (3) Tom Riddle Sr. (3) Deeply loved though Martha was by her parents and adoptive brothers, it was painful for her to grow up at Ilvermorny when she was unable to perform magic. Even so, Gormlaith’s magic was strong and Dark enough to match them. All were provided with wands of Isolt’s and James’s making. She did not dare dissect it to find out how it was made, and her investigations into the wands of the boys’ parents showed her only that the dragon heartstring and unicorn hair they had both contained, had long since shrivelled and died. Isolt had no family, unless you counted Gormlaith back in Ireland. For argumentative but fiercely loyal Webster, it was the Wampus, a magical panther-like creature that was fast, strong and almost impossible to kill. She was the offspring of two pure-blood wizarding families. Ahead of the release of the Potter world spin off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J.K. Rowling has released a short story and animated video giving the film's back story - and it describes a secret school of witchcraft and wizardry founded by an Irish witch by the name of Isolt Sayre. As a small boy, Chadwick had overheard Isolt discussing her reasons for escaping Ireland and, little though she and James realised it, Chadwick’s dreams had been haunted by the figure of an old witch creeping through the trees towards Ilvermorny. Isolt had fled Ireland to escape her wicked ways. However, at five years old, an attack upon the family home resulted in the death of both of her parents. She eventually married the non-magical brother of a friend from the Pocomtuc tribe and lived henceforth as a No-Maj. Rionach, the youngest of James and Isolt’s daughters, taught Defence Against the Dark Arts at Ilvermorny for many years. The Pukwudgie and Isolt together made short work of the Hidebehind, which this time was destroyed. By the nineteenth century, Ilvermorny had gained the international reputation it enjoys today. They might have thought that they had shielded him from any knowledge of the murderous Gormlaith, but they were wrong. Ahead of the release of the Potter world spin off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J.K. Rowling has released a short story and animated video giving the film's back story - and it describes a secret school of witchcraft and wizardry founded by an Irish witch by the name of Isolt Sayre. It troubled her that in her haste to save the children she had not been able to give their parents’ bodies a decent burial, and when at last Chadwick and Webster seemed well enough to leave alone for a few hours, she returned to the forest with the intention of creating graves that the boys might one day visit. It resisted all attempts to prune or kill it, but after several years the leaves were found to contain powerful medicinal properties. She makes her screen writing debut in Fantastic Beasts out in November. However, it was only when she heard that the name of the school was ‘Ilvermorny’, that Gormlaith could believe that Isolt had managed to travel all the way to America undetected, to marry, not just a Muggle-born, but an actual Muggle, and to open a school that educated anybody with a shred of magic. James placed a hand on her shoulder. It is sometimes said of the Ilvermorny houses that they represent the whole witch or wizard: the mind is represented by Horned Serpent; the body, Wampus; the heart, Pukwudgie and the soul, Thunderbird. William Sayre and his wife Rionach Sayre were the parents of Isolt Sayre. Marble statues of Isolt and James flank the front doors of Ilvermorny Castle. Isolt Sayre was one such member, who went on to be one of the founders of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Chadwick’s eleventh birthday was fast approaching and Isolt was at a loss to know how to provide the wand she had promised him. Two onto one made her job more difficult: moreover, the twin cores of the Boot boys’ wands, when used together against a common enemy, increased their power tenfold. The old witch had indulged in all manner of Dark magic in an attempt to make herself invincible, and these curses now reacted with the Pukwudgie’s venom, causing her to become as solid and as brittle as coal before shattering into a thousand pieces. Fiercely independent, tricky and not over-fond of humankind (whether magical or mundane), it possesses its own powerful magic. Her father is a direct descendent of "the famous Irish witch Morrigan." However, after several weeks alone in the mountains, she met two magical creatures of whose existence she had hitherto been ignorant. Rionach = "Queen" = Queenie. The North American wizarding school was founded in the 17th century by Isolt Sayre, an Irish orphan who came to America aboard the Mayflower. In silence the school then waits for the enchanted carvings to react. The British, and presumably Irish, wizarding systems seem more forgiving and accepting than perhaps that of America. There is a new witch in town. Meanwhile Webster was trying to shake his parents awake, but the enchantment lay so deeply upon them that not even the sound of Gormlaith’s shouts and of curses hitting the house roused them. She was the offspring of two pure-blood wizarding families. Only when she raised it to attack her hated aunt did she realise that for all the good it would do her, the sleeping wand might as well have been a stick she had found on the ground. After 12 years of isolation, Isolt steals her aunt's wand, hides in England and then sets sail on the Mayflower in 1620. Isolt ignored the directions and followed William to find that the Hidebehind who had attempted to kill William years ago … The houses—Horned Serpent, Wampus, Thunderbird, and Pukwudgie—each represent the favorite animals of Isolt Sayre’s family. The two creatures had met in the forest and the Hidebehind, which was of unusual size and strength, had not only succeeded in capturing the Pukwudgie, which was young and inexperienced, but had also been on the point of disembowelling him when Isolt cast the curse that made it flee. James even helped Isolt construct a stone house on the top of Greylock, providing a workable design, having been a stonemason in England, which Isolt made a reality in the space of an afternoon. The tale, Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, is the latest chapter in a series of new Rowling stories published via her Pottermore website expanding the History of Magic in North America. The granite house expanded to a castle. The Pukwudgie glared at her, then vanished. Unaware that the Pukwudgie, too, was exceptionally dangerous to humans, Isolt picked him up, carried him to her makeshift shelter and nursed him back to health. Isolt did not want to frighten the boys with the story of Gormlaith. Isolt left the new colony partly because she remained afraid that Gormlaith would track her, even to a new continent, but also because her journey aboard the Mayflower had led her to deduce that a witch was unlikely to find many friends among the Puritans. Worse, two small boys lay seriously injured nearby, waiting their turn as the Hidebehind prepared to disembowel their parents. She becomes the founder of the American version of Hogwarts.Credit:Pottermore. On the eve of his birthday, she had a dream that she went down to the creek to find the Horned Serpent, which rose up out of the water and bowed its head to her while she shaved a long shard from its horn. However, Gormlaith herself had attended Hogwarts, and told Isolt a great deal about the school. Gormlaith Gaunt (c. 1576 - 1634) was an Irish pure-blood witch.She was the aunt of Isolt Sayre, the founder of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft.Gormlaith attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, where she was sorted into Slytherin House.. Gormlaith strongly believed in pure-blood supremacy and had an intense hatred for anyone who went against these views. Isolt had sacrificed her only friend for the two small boys who might not survive. William had saved the family’s lives. He laughs at the idea that he is the original William who saved Isolt and James’s lives, rightly pointing out that the first William would be over 300 years old had he survived. Gloating, Gormlaith drove Isolt, Chadwick and Webster backwards up the stairs, towards the place where she could hear her great-nieces crying. Gaunt is a descendant of Morrigan and Salazar Slytherin and a fanatical pure-blood much in the same vein as Draco Malfoy and other followers of Lord Voldemort. Only a witch or wizard is likely to survive an attack by a Hidebehind. The serpent’s message never varied: ‘Until I am part of your family, your family is doomed.’. Gormlaith had purchased a wand at the despised Ollivanders to replace the precious family wand that had been handed down through generations before Isolt stole it. William Sayre and his wife Rionach Sayre were the parents of Isolt Sayre. She intended to lay waste to the second Ilvermorny, slaughter the parents who had thwarted her ambition of a great pure-blood family, steal her great nieces who were the last to carry the sacred bloodline, and return with them to Hag’s Glen. The wand had been taught by its creator to ‘sleep’ when so instructed, and this secret had been handed down through the centuries to each member of Slytherin’s family who possessed it. Isolt and James both lived to be over 100. While repatriating a particularly nasty Dark wizard to London, Webster met and fell in love with a young Scottish witch who was working at the Ministry of Magic. Slytherin’s wand remained inactive following Gormlaith’s command in Parseltongue. William Sayre and Rionach Gaunt had one daughter named Isolt Sayre. Unfamiliar with the creature and taking it for a common or garden Boggart, Mr Boot had attempted to ridicule it, with the awful consequences that Isolt and William had witnessed. Meet Isolt Sayre Ilvermorny's origin can be traced back to a pure-blood Irish girl named Isolt Sayre, born around 1603. Rionach never married. He considered it a great humiliation to be indebted to a young witch foolish enough to wander around in a strange country, where Pukwudgies or Hidebehinds might have attacked her at any moment, and her days were now filled with the Pukwudgie’s grumbling as he trudged along at her heels. When Chadwick woke next day, it was to find a finely carved wand of prickly ash enclosing the horn of the serpent. We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the North American wizarding school. To her surprise, when she arrived in the clearing she found a young man by the name of James Steward. he asked. Isolt and James had succeeded in creating a wand of exceptional power. Dwellings The Burrow. Like Potter, Isolt is an orphan. For many years, Isolt and James remained joint Headmaster and Headmistress, as beloved to many generations of students as members of their own families. Moreover, wands had to be left at Ilvermorny during vacations and only upon attaining seventeen years of age was the witch or wizard legally allowed to carry a wand outside school. Outraged by the Pukwudgie’s callousness, Isolt told him that she would accept the saving of one of the boy’s lives as repayment. Sayre was the surname of a pure-blood wizarding family. Even as she sent curses at his head in an attempt to subdue him, and drove him back towards the house, she questioned him about his parentage for, she said, she would be loathe to kill a pure-blood of his talent. Instead, for the good of mankind (and wizardkind), he chose to help restore the timelines to their rightful place,… The house expanded with every passing year. Isolt had turned pale as a sheet and she sat down. One day, while foraging in the woods, the two heard a grisly noise nearby. Gormlaith landed in Virginia and made her way stealthily towards Massachusetts and Mount Greylock, reaching the mountain on a winter’s night. Fantastic Beasts is the first instalment of a film trilogy which stars Eddie Redmayne stars as an eccentric wizard who comes to the United States for an official magic meeting and accidentally lets loose from his briefcase some dangerous creatures and their habitats. Isolt christened her new home ‘Ilvermorny’ after the cottage in which she had been born, and which Gormlaith had destroyed. The only other object that Isolt took with her was a gold brooch in the shape of a Gordian Knot that had once belonged to her mother. The only people to stay at Ilvermorny overnight were Isolt, James, Chadwick, Webster and the twin girls to whom Isolt had now given birth: Martha, named for James’s late mother, and Rionach, named for Isolt’s. Webster therefore hurtled downstairs and joined the duel now raging just outside the house. Isolt was fleeing her aunt, Gormlaith Gaunt, who kept Isolt under a dark curse and refused to let her attend Hogwarts. Once students have been allocated a house they are led into a large hall where they select (or are selected by) a wand. She and her family founded Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the American Wizarding school and defended it from her families evil legacy. Faithful to the taboos of his people, the Pukwudgie refused to tell her his individual name, so she dubbed him ‘William’ after her father. ​The story is a tie-in to the Fantastic Beasts film, an adaptation of Rowling's book by the same name that purports to be a reproduction of a first-year textbook owned by Harry Potter. The child's parents were killed when she was 5 by Rionach Gaunt's older sister … Isolt and James considered the Boot boys their adopted sons. He, too, was from the Plymouth settlement. Its existence has been suspected by No-Majs, but they are no match for its powers. It was against the beliefs of his kind to assist humankind, Isolt being the unfortunate exception because she had saved his life. Gormlaith returned to m… Some protective instinct told Isolt to save the Horned Serpent cores only for her two adoptive sons and she and James learned to use a variety of other cores, including Wampus hair, Snallygaster heartstring and Jackalope antlers. Instead, she promised them that when they reached eleven years old, she would somehow find them wands (their parents’ wands being broken beyond repair) and they would start a school of magic right there in the cottage. Chadwick and Webster’s wizarding parents had brought them to America in search of a fascinating adventure. Chadwick became an accomplished and well-travelled wizard who authored Chadwick’s Charms Vols I – VII, which are standard texts at Ilvermorny. At last the young woman developed sufficient skill and courage to escape by stealing her aunt’s wand, for she had never been permitted her own. J.K. Rowling's short story and animation introduces us to an Irish witch by the name of Isolt Sayre. Others say that Horned Serpent favours scholars, Wampus, warriors, Pukwudgie, healers and Thunderbird, adventurers. [1] 1 History 2 Houses 3 Uniform 4 Subjects 5 Known Students 6 Notes and references Ilvermorny was founded sometime around 1624 in the early 17th century. It was this that pierced the enchantment lying over Isolt and James. Isolt Sayre founded Ilvermorny. Congratulations, Madam Sayre. They had hired staff, they had built dormitories, they had concealed their school from No-Maj eyes by clever enchantments: in short, the girl who had dreamed of attending Hogwarts had helped found the North American equivalent. On arrival she vanished into the surrounding mountains, leaving her erstwhile shipmates to suppose that ‘Elias Story’ had died of the harsh winter, like so many others. The colours honour Isolt and James: blue because it was Isolt’s favourite colour and because she had wished to be in Ravenclaw house as a child; cranberry in honour of James’s love of cranberry pie. Like all children, Chadwick had heard and understood more than his adoptive parents had ever imagined. For Chadwick, an intelligent but often temperamental boy, it was the Thunderbird that can create storms as it flies. In exchange for their gratitude he merely barked that he noticed Isolt had not bothered to say his name for a decade, and that he was offended that she only called him when in fear of her imminent death. They took trips together to observe the frog-headed Hodags hunting, they fought a dragonish Snallygaster and watched newborn Wampus kittens playing in the dawn. William assumes Isolt meant to call out to him specifically, and was miffed that she only wanted him when there was a problem. By the time Webster turned eleven, the reputation of the family’s little home school had spread. When asked what his favourite creature was, James was at a loss. At her first sight of the large granite building rising in the darkness from the peak of Mount Greylock, Gormlaith sent a powerful curse containing Isolt and James’s names towards the house, which forced them into an enchanted slumber. The community soon learned to avoid the place where Gormlaith lived, and from then on the only contact Isolt had with the villagers she had once been friends with, was when local boys threw stones at her as she played in the garden. The doors open onto a circular room topped by a glass cupola. As she and William foraged in the woods one day, a grisly noise not far away caused William to shout at Isolt to remain where she was, as he charged away through the trees, poisoned arrow at the ready. Sincerely, Headmaster Smith. It raised its head exactly as it had done in her dream, she took part of its horn, thanked it, then returned to the house and woke James, whose skill with stone and wood had already beautified the family cottage. The robes of Ilvermorny are blue and cranberry. A great clatter sounded and the moonlight was blocked from the room as William the Pukwudgie appeared on the windowsill. He woke in a small shelter of branches and animal skins to find himself being nursed by Isolt. For twelve years, Gormlaith enforced Isolt’s cooperation and isolation through powerful Dark magic. Yet it seems clear that if we’re noting the similarities of James and Isolt to Lily and James, Isolt Sayre takes the place of James Potter. More students had arrived and while the school was still small, there were enough children to fulfil Webster’s dream of inter-house competitions. The boys were so seriously ill for the first couple of weeks that Isolt did not dare leave them. Rage and magic could not wake them, but the terrified screams of their daughters broke the curse Gormlaith had laid upon them, which, like Gormlaith herself, took no account of the power of love. Isolt Sayre is a Heroine from the Harry Potter franchise. As the name suggests, it can contort itself to hide behind almost any object, concealing itself perfectly from hunters and victims alike. Both pure-blood wizards who choose to intermarry, who rush towards the danger while their spouse offers his/her own life to protect their children. However, nobody has ever found out exactly how long Pukwudgies live. Buy movie tickets in advance, find movie times, watch trailers, read movie reviews, and more at Fandango. They died in a house fire in the early 17th century. These wands did not become inactive when Gormlaith spoke her word of Parseltongue. James was delighted to meet the Pukwudgie of whom he had heard so much and, forgetting that Pukwudgies hate most humans, he wrung the perplexed William’s hand and said how glad he was he had named one of the houses of Ilvermorny after him. Her father, William Sayre, was a direct descendant of the famous Irish witch Morrigan, an Animagus whose creature form was a crow. Isolt was now quite alone in a harsh, foreign country and, as far as she knew, the only witch for hundreds if not thousands of miles – her partial education by Gormlaith had not included information about Native American wizards. "Ice, what could possibly be the matter?" Animal magic ... Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander in JK Rowling's updcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.Credit:Entertainment Weekly. Gormlaith (her sister/Isolt's aunt) = blue (more soon) “Princess” Isolt may be derived off “Isolde”, who, in the tale of Tristan and Isolde, is a royal who later becomes queen Now he saw his nightmare made true. In the main, she did this to denigrate the place, lamenting that Salazar Slytherin’s plans for the purity of wizardkind had not been fulfilled. The young boys, he said, were already as good as dead. Thus were the four houses of Ilvermorny created, and while the four originators did not yet know it, much of their own characters leaked into the houses they had so light-heartedly named. Animal magic ... Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander in JK Rowling's updcoming, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Magic is Real, Rowling accused of Cultural Misappropriation. She later had a son named William Sayre who married Rionach Gaunt, a descendant of the Slytherin and Peverell family. More teachers were recruited to meet the growing demand. Next, she uttered a single sibilant word in Parseltongue, the language of snakes. By 1634, the home school had grown beyond Isolt’s family’s wildest dreams. She took to visiting the creek alone and never told the Pukwudgie where she had been. Isolt Sayre was the founder of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.2 1 Biography 2 Appearance 3 Personality 4 Skills and abilities 5 Possessions 6 Etymology 7 Trivia 8 Appearances 9 … The idea of naming the houses after themselves, as the founders, was swiftly abandoned, because Webster felt a house called ‘Webster Boot’ had no chance of ever winning anything, and instead, each chose their favourite magical beast. Only by stealing the child, Gormlaith believed, could their daughter be brought back to the ‘right way’: raised in the belief that as a descendant of both Morrigan and Salazar Slytherin she ought to associate only with pure-bloods. Gormlaith set herself to be the model she thought Isolt needed by forcing the child to watch, as she cursed and jinxed any Muggle or animal that strayed too near their cottage. The two boys were so ill she was afraid to Apparate with them, but insisted on carrying them home. I would like to propose a meeting between us and our prospective schools. In the meantime, it was wonderful to have another adult to talk to, especially an adult who was already fond of the Boot boys and helped entertain them while they recovered from their magical injuries. Isolt was finally reunited with people of her own kind under tragic circumstances. Isolt screamed at James to go to the girls: she ran to assist her adoptive sons, Slytherin’s wand in her hand. In spite of the Pukwudgie’s ingratitude, Isolt found him amusing and was glad of his company. For Isolt, it was, of course, the Horned Serpent that she still visited and with which she felt a strange sense of kinship. The Thunderbird signifies its approval by beating its wings, and the Pukwudgie will raise its arrow into the air. Very rarely – perhaps once a decade – a student is offered a place in all four houses. As far as she knew, the wand she had stolen from Gormlaith was the only one in America. She could not understand the Horned Serpent’s cryptic words, or even decide whether she was imagining the voice in which he seemed to speak to her. Isolt intended to Obliviate James once he was over his concussion and to send him back to the colony at Plymouth. The Weasleys' home, known as the Burrow, is located outside the village of Ottery St Catchpole which is situated alongside the River Otter in Devon, England, also near the home of the Lovegoods, the Diggorys and the Fawcetts. 1603/1903 – Isolt Sayre, Queenie born (exactly 300 years apart) 1627/1927 – Founding of Illvermorny/Incidents of Paris. J.K. Rowling's short story and animation introduces us to an Irish witch by the name of Isolt Sayre. News had reached the old country that a new magical school had been set up in Massachusetts. He married a Mexican Healer called Josefina Calderon and the Calderon-Boot family remains one of wizarding America’s most prominent today. As Isolt grew older she came to realise that her saviour was in reality her kidnapper and the murderer of her parents. To her niece, isolated and mistreated by an aunt she believed to be at least half insane, Hogwarts sounded like a kind of paradise and she spent much of her teens fantasising about it. By 1634, the school was flourishing and Isolt had given birth to her and James' twin daughters, Martha and Rionach. However, as the school’s reputation had not yet expanded beyond the local Native American tribes and European settlers, there were no boarders. Over time, a friendship developed between them that was almost unique in the history of their respective species. Whether that will be based on the story of Isolt Sayre or a more modern generation of … There is one particularly aged creature who answers to the name of ‘William’. All Ilvermorny students’ robes are fastened by a gold Gordian Knot, in memory of the brooch Isolt found in the ruins of the original Ilvermorny cottage. Lord Voldemort (/ ˈ v oʊ l d ə m ɔːr / , /- m ɔːr t / in the films) [a] is a sobriquet for Tom Marvolo Riddle , a fictional character and the main antagonist in J. K. Rowling 's series of Harry Potter novels. Isolt Sayre (b. TM & © WBEI. Linda Morris is on Facebook and Twitter @LindaMorrissmh, Linda Morris is an arts writer at The Sydney Morning Herald, J.K. Rowling introduces new witch Isolt Sayre, founder of the American version of Hogwarts. Otherwise the space is empty except for four enormous wooden carvings representing the houses: the Horned Serpent, the panther Wampus, the Thunderbird and the Pukwudgie. Speaks Fluent Animal: Downplayed. Theater Info Temporarily Closed. Isolt and the Pukwudgie save two brothers from the Hidebehind, the sweet witch falls in love with a muggle and together they raise the boys as their own, establishing a North American school of magic on a mountain top in Massachusetts. Even her Pukwudgie guide was terrified of this beast, but to his astonishment, the Horned Serpent seemed to like Isolt. Telling Webster to warn their parents, Chadwick sprinted downstairs and did the only thing that seemed to make sense to him: he ran out of the house to meet Gormlaith and prevent her entering the place where his family slept. She and James buried it outside the grounds. Thus did the Boot family return to its home country. Now witch and wizard children from all over North America were being sent to learn there and it became a boarding school. WIZARDING WORLD Publishing and Theatrical Stage Rights © J.K. Rowling. William began to introduce Isolt to the magical creatures with which he was familiar. Waking in the darkness, she proceeded down to the creek. The emergence of a bespoke and unique wizarding universe from Rowling's inexhaustible imagination must surely send Hollywood and book publishers in a spin of their own. If the Wampus wants the student, it roars. Two more magical boys from the Wampanoag tribe had been joined by a mother and two daughters from the Narragansett, all interested in learning the techniques of wandwork in exchange for sharing their own magical learning. Isolt could not speak the language, but, in any case, she no longer wanted to touch the wand that was the last relic of her unhappy childhood. Naturally, Isolt did not follow his instructions, and when she arrived shortly afterwards at a small clearing she found a horrific sight. The Sorting Ceremony is not the only major difference between Hogwarts and Ilvermorny (though in so many ways the schools resemble each other). Webster’s descendants would be educated at Hogwarts. As invariably happens when a No-Maj waves a wand, it rebelled. ‎Show Tales from Godric’s Hollow - Discussing Harry Potter Books, Movies, and News, Ep 203. Now the duel reached extraordinary proportions, Gormlaith still laughing and promising them mercy if they could prove their pure-blood credentials, Chadwick and Webster determined to stop her reaching their family.
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