Mould-on-the-Wold

Mould-on-the-Wold
Location information
Location	England, Great Britain
Permanent residents	Dumbledore family (formerly) Three Muggle Boys

Mould-on-the-Wold was a village in England where the Dumbledore family lived and grew up in. Like several other English villages such as Godric's Hollow, Tinworth, Upper Flagley, and Ottery St Catchpole, Mould-on-the-Wold was home to a number of wizarding families living in hiding alongside Muggles.

Though after an accident with their daughter, Ariana Dumbledore, their father was sent to Azkaban. Kendra subsequently moved the family from Mould-on-the-Wold to Godric's Hollow for a new life.

History

The Dumbledore family was a magical family who lived in this village. Albus Dumbledore, Aberforth Dumbledore, and Ariana Dumbledore grew up here and spent their early childhood years here.

In 1891, one day six-year-old, Ariana Dumbledore was outside in the backyard garden hedge playing with her uncontrolled use of magic. Without her knowing, three Muggle boys had been spying on her. After becoming scared of what they witnessed they confronted her. The boys tried to get Ariana to show them her trick, but when she was unable because of her being so young, they turned violent and started to attack her to stop her from using magic.

Her father Percival learned what had happened, he searched and attacked the boys and was subsequently sent to Azkaban for crimes against the Muggles.

As a result of the attack, she became traumatised to the point of her unwilling to use magic, meaning she built up a condition which was called an obscurial which was a magical build-up. This caused her to have violently powerful magical accidents and outbreaks. Despite the instability of Ariana's condition, she was not detained at St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, as her father never revealed the reason for his attack on the Muggle boys in his defence.

About a year later in 1892, after the attack on Ariana, Kendra Dumbledore relocated herself and her three children, Ariana, Albus and Aberforth to Godric's Hollow, where she isolated the family in an attempt to hide Ariana's disability, where she could grow up safer with no eyes on her.

Etymology

The village might be named after the English market town Stow-on-the-Wold, in Gloucestershire. "Wold" is an archaic word for a grassland, while "mould" is an alternative spelling for "mold". In the context of the town's name, "stow" most likely means "a place", but the word is also a verb meaning "to store over a long time".

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First mentioned)
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)