Throughout the series which bears his name, Harry Potter is something of a living legend. His reputation as the Boy Who Lived precedes him, the expectations he is expected to reach scholastically are ridiculously high thanks to his defeat of the dark lord Voldemort when he was only a baby, and the way people fawn over him earns him half of Slytherin as an instant enemy before he's even had chance to meet them. That and the fact that he's apparently destined to eventually take down Voldemort again is rather a lot of responsibility to carry in the first place, and that's before you throw in the theory that he's the descendant of King Arthur. Or possibly reincarnation. As if he didn't have enough to live up to, tsk. Be warned: this particular theory is almost as long as a Harry Potter book itself. And we're not talking about those flimsy first three in the series, we mean a meandering, phonebook-thick tome on par with Order Of The Phoenix. The crux of it is that JK Rowling was supposedly foreshadowing a plot twist all along which would reveal the Potters were descented from Arthurian legend, that there's a load of parallels to the famous pulling of the sword from the stone (something to do with the Sorting Hat, apparently), and that he's not the only one with royal blood; after all the Weasleys Arthur, Bill, Charlie, Fred, and George and are all named after British monarchs. Wait, so everybodys descended from kings? Or something? This one is so insane we're not sure the person writing it even understood it.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
