Ravenclaw Family

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## Family Heritage

### Species

* Wizardkind
* Witch
* Hybrid
* Tribrid

### Notable Family Members

* Rowena Ravenclaw †
* Helena Ravenclaw †
* Helena's Child †
* Silas Ravenclaw
* Nova Riddle-Ravenclaw (Silas' Wife)
* Scorpius Malfoy (London's Husband)
* Link Riddle-Ravenclaw
* Loki Riddle-Ravenclaw
* London Riddle-Ravenclaw
* Nik Mikaelson-Malfoy
* Ava Mikaelson-Malfoy

## Relationships

### Related Families

* Riddle Family
* Gaunt Family
* Mikaelson Family
* Labonair Family
* Malfoy Family
* Black Family
* Slytherin Family
* Gryffindor Family

## Affiliation

### House(s)

* Ravenclaw
* Gryffindor

**The Ravenclaw Family** is the surname of a wizarding/witch family originating from Scotland that existed in the 10th century in Britain. They were half-blood with Muggle heritage. The Ravenclaw name is well known, as Rowena Ravenclaw founded Ravenclaw house at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The last of the bloodline is Silas Ravenclaw, his three children, Link, Loki, and London, as well as London's children Nik and Ava.

## History

### Early History

The Ravenclaw family's earliest-known member was Rowena Ravenclaw, a prominent witch in the wizarding world and one of the four legendary founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, along with Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. Rowena eventually had a daughter named Helena by an unknown man. Helena attended Hogwarts, where she captured the fancy of a Baron in Slytherin house.

When she became older, Helena became jealous of her mother's intellect, which was enhanced by her famous diadem. Helena stole the diadem and ran away with it to Albania. Around the same time, her mother became fatally ill, possibly due to heartbreak caused by the departure of her daughter. Sometime during this time Helena had a child and gave it to a loving family to take care of the baby. Rowena sent the Baron, who loved her daughter, to find Helena and bring her to home.

The Baron found Helena in an Albanian forest, though she refused to come back with him; in a fit of rage, he killed her and then took his own life when he was overcome with remorse for what he had done. They both returned to Hogwarts Castle as ghosts, where they became known as the Grey Lady, ghost of Ravenclaw house, and the Bloody Baron, ghost of Slytherin house. Rowena died before ever being reunited with her daughter.

### Recent History

By the early twentieth century, the Ravenclaw family was not known to have any surviving members, but Helga ended up finding Helena's child and bring them back to the castle and raised the child as a Ravenclaw. In the 1940s, a student named Tom Riddle managed to convince the Grey Lady to tell him where she had hidden her mother's diadem in the forests of Albania. Years later, as Lord Voldemort, Riddle found the diadem, turned it into one of his Horcruxes, and hid it in the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts after being refused the position of Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts by Albus Dumbledore.

During the Second Wizarding War, the Grey Lady revealed what she had done to Harry Potter and Hope Mikaelson, clearly distressed by her mistake; Harry assured her that she was not alone in being taken in by Riddle's charm. Hope assured her that they can take that dark tainted magic out of the diadem and returns it to Silas who it rightfully belongs to.