Head Boy/ Girl, Lily Slytherin, and Mrs. Figg

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 1532

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Bates" <spicoli323 at h...> 
wrote:
> > On Lily having Slytherin blood:  When I hear people repeat this 
> theory, I know how Hermione feels when people keep talking about 
> apparating into Hogwarts.  In CoS Dumbeldore specifically says that 
> Tom Riddle was the last heir of Slytherin.  Since he is one of the 
> few wizards who knows that the Heir of Slytherin, Tom Riddle, and 
> Voldemort are the same person, I would think he's done a lot of 
> research into this matter, including Tom Riddle's family tree, so 
if 
> anyone would know this, it would be him.  JKR has thrown more than 
a 
> few curve balls before, but having Harry be descended from 
Slytherin 
> on either side would directly contradict something she already 
said.  
> I think the resemblance between Tom Riddle and Harry and James *is* 
> just a red herring, as well as a thematice device (Voldy and Harry 
> are two sides of the same coin, or something like that).  Harry's 
> Slytherin-like qualities (i.e. Parseltongue and the Hat wanting to 
> sort him into Slytherin House) can be explained by Dumbledore's 
> theory that Voldy unwittingly transferred some of his power to Harry
> On the other hand, I do subscribe to the theory that Harry is the 
> heir of Gryffindor (possibly through Lily but almost definitely 
> through James) and because of the Slytherin qualities he got from 
> Voldy, is a sort of reconciliation of the two, which I think will 
be 
> very important in the end.

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Okay, just found this, have to throw it in.

My Webster's American Dictionary, College Edition, 1997, defines Heir 
as:  2b--(in civil law) a person who succeeds to the place of a 
deceased person and assumes the rights and obligations of the 
deceased.  3-- a personwho inherits or is entitled to inherit the 
rank, title, or position of another, 4-- a person or group considered 
as inheriting the tradition, talent, etc., of a predecessor.
 1 and 2a are both about inheriting property, etc., like from a will.
Nowhere does it say anything about an heir being descendant from a 
person, bloodline, lineage, etc.  Only the legality of being an 
heir.  Sort of a passing of the baton.  can anyone else find a 
definition of heir that includes ancestry?

And, yes, chances are vey good that the physical resemblances (I 
didn't mean parseltongue) are just a red herring to throw us on the 
wrong track.

Kelley