Forum:Who Inheritted Ignotus Peverell's Cloak?

Hi everyone. We've been having a discussion in the Ignotus Peverell article on who inheritted the Invisiblity Cloak from Ignotus Peverell: Ignotus's son or granddaughter, Iolanthe? I would like your opinion, thanks.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard's Tale of Three Brothers says that Ignotus shed his cloak and gave it to his son. Recently, JKR wrote an article on Pottermore which says that Ignotus' granddaughter, Ionlanthe inherited it from her grandfather.

I was on the side that say Iolanthe that inheritted it. Couple reasons.

1. She was the only one that said "inheritted from her grandfather." Ignotus son was just given it.

2. In the Harry Potter universe, Tale of Three Brothers are fairy tales and what Pottermore article provided was in-story history. Fairy tales may contains some facts, but they are not absolute truths. My opponent think just because the tale were written by JKR, that it is absolute truths. My opponent fails to recognize the purpose of why JKR wrote those fairy tales in the Harry Potter universe, they were fairy tales. Like I said before, fairy tales may have some facts but are not 100% truth. They often use to convey a message. Like the Warlock Hairy Heart encourage reader to love. The fact it mention that Ignotus gave the Invisibility Cloak to his son is more likely for two reasons. First, unlike his brothers, he didn't face an untimely death. Second, the Invisibiliy Cloak, unlike the Elder Wand, have a rather peaceful transition of owners.

3. My opponent used a quote from the Pottermore article which says "She was the granddaughter of Ignotus Peverell. In the absence of male heirs, she, the eldest of her generation, had inherited her grandfather’s invisibility cloak" to justify the position that Ignotus passed it to his son, who in turn pass it to his daughter. In my opinion, this quote doesn't show this conlusion. If anything this shows us, that Ignotus's son and any possible other children, and grandchildren who may be males may have predecease him. We have seen in real life, where a child inheritted from grandparents because their parents who suppose to inherit, predecease the grandparents. And we have seen in real life, where a female inheritted only once all male heirs are gone. An example of this can be seen in the British royal family. 

4. My opponent failed to read further on the Pottermore article which says ""From this time on, the cloak was handed down to the eldest in each new generation." This was after Iolanthe inheritted the cloak from her grandfather. So it was her that began the tradition of passing from one generation to the next. It didn't began with Ignotus passing it to his son, who in turn passes to his daughter. It began with Ionathe.

5. Are we expect to see fairy tales characters to come to live in our real world? If as my opponent believe, they are absolute truths.Seasrmar (talk) 20:17, October 31, 2015 (UTC)