[HPforGrownups] Voldemort's Heritage

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 12026

At 07:33 PM 2/10/01 -0600, Signe Cluiss wrote:
>What I want to know is how Voldemort was the heir to the Chamber of Secrets?
>   Ususally, the line is passed through the father's side and if that is so,
>how can he be the heir of Slytherin when his MOTHER was the witch?  Any
>ideas?

I think JKR has made it clear that the Wizarding World discovered feminism
at least 2000 years before the Muggles did... Otherwise Hogwarts would have
been founded by Goderic Gryffindor and Salazaar Slytherin, while Helga
Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw stayed home baking treacle fudge
and having Tupper-Caldron parties.  So, I think it's safe to say that in the
Wizarding World lines of succession pass through both sexes... Therefore,
there is also an heir of Hufflepuff (Cedric?) and of Ravenclaw (Penelope?).



                                                 -- Dave