Heir of Gryffindor? (rant enclosed)

[sabrina_myst at yahoo.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 15433

All right.  I'm a newbie here, so please don't murder me if this has 
been over-discussed in the past... anyway.  Although I don't know you 
guys' opinions on this, it seems that a majority of FanFiction.net 
believes that Harry, through James, is a descendant of Godric 
Gryffindor - probably popularised by DD&DS.  Further extrapolation 
leads to the conclusion that this is the reason Voldemort wanted to 
kill James and Harry, but not Lily.  Now, I know this is a perfectly 
logical theory and all - but I, personally, hate it!  Following are 
my reasons for rejecting this theory: (Uh-oh... this is beginning to 
sound like one of those stupid grammar school essays... "I think this 
because"... *g*)

My first and foremost reason that this school of thought is going to 
be sadly disappointed in future books is, simply, it's not JK's 
style.  Moan and groan all you like - if 95% of online HP fans 
believe it, it probably won't make a very good plot twist, and JK 
hinted through Dumbledore in PS/SS that the reason Voldemort was 
after Harry is going to be a major twist.  Furthermore, if you look 
at all the plot twists in the books so far, you'll find that they 
would have been completely impossible to figure out before the book 
came out, because they concerned new characters and/or events that 
were impossible to figure out from the old books.  So, I'm guessing 
that if we have enough information to formulate it into a theory, 
it's not a very likely theory.  Sad but true.

Reason No. 2 concerns the sheer impossibility of it.  How on earth 
can someone like Voldemort try to wipe out all the Gryffindor blood 
on the planet?  It's easy for him to declare himself the Heir of 
Slytherin - even though we basically have only his word for that, 
it's perfectly plausible - but there are also probably thousands of 
Heirs of Slytherin who just haven't bothered to trace back their 
ancestry, and of course the same would go for Gryffindor.  I can 
trace back to one of my ancestors in the circa-Founder period, and I 
also have a thirty-page album filled with nothing but the names, 
birth and death dates, and children of that person's descendants.  So 
it would be pretty mad to try and track down and wipe out all 
Gryffindor blood, or even go after someone because of it, because by 
the time a thousand years have passed it's plausible that even some 
of the Death Eaters have Gryffindor blood.  Now, Voldemort may be an 
insane sociopath, but he's not stupid, or at least not as stupid as 
many would think.  He would probably know the sheer insanity of this.

Okay, my fingers are a bit sore from typing, and I really ought to 
start on my homework, so I'll leave off here.  It would be typically 
stupid of me if it turned out that none of you believe this theory 
and I'm essentially preaching to the converted, but I kind of needed 
to say all this, and I'd get weird net-looks if I were to post 
something like this with reasonable spelling and acutal thought on 
one of the many HP "discussion" boards I visit.  Au revoir, mes 
amis.  It's off to the land of French homework I go.