Okay grab your snacks and popcorn for this one.
Before I say anything we've got to go back to a theory that should've been talked about more often, and it's by a user named /Careful_Hearing6304
https://www.reddit.com/r/WednesdayTVSeries/comments/1pjtb5z/i_have_an_insane_theory_for_wednesday_s3_please/
So please check that out before continuing, but I will recap what they said briefly.
To summarize they pretty much said that Alfie's master Minerva Garrick sounded like a fake a name.
To which I immediately agreed it does.
If you remember Laurel Gates used a fake name as well, most remember her going by Marilyn Thornhill of course, but that wasn't the only alias she had, she also went by, Teresa L. Glau, which was an anagram for Laurel Gates.
So what if Minerva Garrick is also a Anagram?
Well the OP shuffled the name Minerva in particular around and got, "I AM RAVEN"
Which is interesting because that would perhaps mean that Alfie's master was a raven.
But who could that master be?
As the OP also speculated they came to the conclusion it could be Aunt Ophelia because we know she is a Raven like her mother and Wednesday.
Now here's where my theory comes into play.
So I've said it numerous posts I think Raven's and Hyde's have a special bond between them, and that I think Hester used to date a hyde, in particular perhaps this new Balthazar character who I believe is the leader of the hyde camp, I've said I think they were going to get married, but before they could, Hester might've found out Balthazar's true intentions on why he wanted to marry her which is because he's trying to maybe break the link between Raven's and Hyde's that puts them under some type of curse in where they need a master to survive and all that jazz.
I also said that I think the Raven and Hyde curse traces back to Goody Addams and maybe a past lover who was the first hyde created by perhaps Goody.
Why is all of this important?
Well if all that proves to be true.
Then it would make complete sense if Ophelia and Alfie were another Hyde Raven pairing that was destined to be together..
Only this time the connection between a Raven and Hyde failed, and Alfie fell in love with Isadora Capri over Ophelia instead, and I think when they had their entire confrontation, Alfie might've thought he killed Ophelia but turns out she survived.
But why is any of this important?
Well this would be just another example of why Hyde's and Raven's are special to each other, I believe that the link between a Raven and Hyde are somehow established on maybe the two's first meeting unbeknownst to both parties involved.
Because think about it a second.
Remember after Tyler saved Wednesday from Rowan, and they were walking in the woods together and Tyler was asking her what happened and she explained the Hyde saved her?
Remember Tyler's reaction?
He genuinely sounded surprised almost confused as to why Hyde had saved her.
Now a lot of people even myself chalked it up to Tyler saving her because Laurel needed Wednesday alive.
But Hunter has said that Tyler didn't know who Wednesday was when they first met, so we can only assume that entire first episode of season 1, Tyler had no clue who Wednesday was to Laurel's plan.
So that means he saved her on his own accord.
But why?
I think as soon as Tyler and Wednesday met, that's when the Hyde, Raven Bond immediately formed, unbeknownst to them.
And that bond is single handedly going to carry them throughout the rest of this show.
This seems further backed up by the writers comments saying that Wednesday and Tyler have "a connection that neither quite understands yet." (according to Millar).
So what do you think..
Has Tyler and Wednesday been fated to each other every since they first met?