[HPforGrownups] Gryffindor - CoS 5 & 6

No: HPFGUIDX 23697

 --- Amy Z <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote: > Steve wrote:
> 
> >I tend to believe too that Harry and Dumbledore are both decendents
> of 
> >Gryffindor
> 
> So Harry and the Big D are some kind of distant cousins?

Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a huge fan of theories that
call Harry the heir of Gryffindor, but let me play devil's advocate for
a moment (or, in this forum, would it be You-know-who's advocate?).

We know from the books that Godric Gryffindor lived approximately one
thousand years ago.  If he was reasonably prolific with some as yet to
be named witch, he could conceivably have thousands - nay, hundreds of
thousands - of descendents by now. If this was the case, practically
everyone in the wizarding world could probably claim Gryffindor as an
ancestor if they tried hard enough.  (A comparison from real life would
be the incredible number of people marginally related because they're
descendents of one of Charles II's mistresses, and that was only 350
years years ago, give or take.)

This is the only version of the "heir of Gryffindor" theories I can
stomach, because almost any other takes away from Harry's position as a
unique character, in my opinion.

=====
Respectfully,
Morgan

"Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes."

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