Caithness

Caithness is a county in the Scottish Highlands facing the North Sea.

  • Minerva McGonagall's parents, the Reverend Robert McGonagall and his wife Isobel moved into a church minister's house outside Caithness, where their three children were later born and raised (Pm). Caithness was a Muggle community, so Isobel and her magical children had to be extremely careful not to break the Statute of Secrecy with their magic.

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Caith is Pictish for "Kingdom of Cat" or "Cat People." The Viking invaders called the place "Katanes" or "Headland of the Cat People," and it eventually became "Caithness." It is a rather funny pun about Minerva's ability to transfigure herself into a Cat.

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