groinkick is making an unwarranted assumption. I don't know that the Council ever thought Maggie was crazy.
no.
Aug 6, 2011
Question: Maggie LeFay, Morgan LeFay, is that a generational name, are they related?
Jim: No, the “LeFay” is something that gets added as an honorific in the wizarding community, it’s one of those kind of mixed names that you give somebody that is sort of a name that she’s earned, so it’s a bit of status, and
it also means you’re insane.
Which everybody thought Harry’s mom was, being a big-time explorer of Ways and hanging out with Faeries and generally kind of doing things that most wizards considered to be pretty crazily, stupidly dangerous. When you’re somebody who can live for three or four hundred years as long as nothing goes wrong, you tend to be a little conservative, really, you get a lot of benefit from that. And certainly, in Maggie’s case, she was bucking the trend, and we’ll probably get into a little bit more of why she was doing that later in the books.
Q. Was Harry’s mom related to Morgan LeFay?
A. No, LeFay is simply a mark of honor.
And a mark of insanity.
June 15, 2011
I mean, there’s more than one reason Maggie the elder got dubbed “LeFay.” Sure, it was because she was on good terms with the faeries, and sure it was because she could travel all over the world in very brief amounts of time the way some of the fae can.
But remember that “fay” or “fey” is also an old word for “crazy.”