[HPforGrownups] Lily's death or her love? (was Re: A new Lily Theory: The...

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 42293

At 12:26 AM -0400 8/3/02, TaliaDawn3 at aol.com wrote:
>
>Of course, this is all highly unlikely - but *I* would like it if somehow
>Harry were the *true* Heir of Slytherin (don't ask me how, if JKR wanted to
>do it, she could!) because that would be counterintuitive for us.  Harry's
>good, Slytherin was evil.  And maybe only Heirs of Slytherin can defeat each
>other ... I like my first idea better I think.

At the moment, I would contend that there is no proper Heir for 
Slytherin.  Riddle tells us in the Chamber that his descent from 
Slytherin is from his mother - "I, in whose veins runs the blood of 
Salazar Slytherin himself, through my mother's side?" (CoS US 
paperback, p. 314).  That body, the one born to Marvolo's daughter, 
was twisted by Dark magic into the snake-like semi-immortal one. 
Then Voldemort lost his physical form altogether in his confrontation 
with Lily and baby!Harry.  At that point, there were no blood heirs 
of Slytherin at all.  Moreover, Voldemort did not fix this when he 
re-embodied himself; the ingredients of his cauldron might give his 
new body the genetic material of his hated Muggle father, Harry, or 
Pettigrew, or a combination of the three, but he has absolutely no 
flesh or blood link to his mother anymore, and thus no legitimate 
claim to Slytherin's blood heritage.

It is intriguing that at least one of the powers Harry supposedly 
gained through the Incident is the Parseltongue, which is treated by 
the students in CoS as if it were Salazar's personal mark.  To the 
extent that there is an Heir of Slytherin at this point at all, 
Harry's got at least as good a claim as the current incarnation of 
Voldemort does.  Perhaps that's one reason why Voldemort was so 
intent on using Harry's blood, and none other.

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