Fighting Fate

[Grace Saalsaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 41097

kansasboy writes:

I still think Harry is the heir of Gryffindor, but that does not 
prevent him from having to make choices.

Now me:

I agree about the choices.  
I was thinking that Harry is the heir to both Gryffindor and Slytherin. He's heir to Gryffindor through Lily - but he's heir to Slytherin through James even though James was in Gryffindor.  

I think James was in the same position that Harry was in, where the Sorting Hat had a difficult decision about which house to put him in.  And, like Harry, James made a choice as Harry: he wanted to not be in Slytherin.

We know that Tom Riddle is an orphan and a model student.  But I think that he and James were related somehow.  Tom Riddle discoveres the Chamber, learns about the heir thing.  There's something very special about that last descendant thingie and being the orphaned child, he desparately wants The Prize.  To get it, he needs to be the last descendant.  So he kills his grandparents and his parents.  Then he learns that James is related - and he still isn't the last descendant.  He needs to off James as well.
He's not interested in killing Lily because she's not the heir - but now there's Harry who is definitely the last descendant and he tells Lily to stand aside so he can kill the last descendant, making himself the Only One.

Dumbledore knows all of this and that's why he tells Harry that choices are more important.   Dumbledore doesn't tell him he's the heir because he says Harry isn't ready to hear it yet. He wants to make sure that Harry has the skills and the maturity to make the right choices. Why else would Harry be so important to Minister of Magic and everyone down, as Snape put it?  It can't be because he's the only person to survive the death curse.  There's something else important surrounding Harry, Voldemort's desire to survive, the way everyone tries real hard to protect this one kid in the whole WW - and the answer is back there in the Chamber.  Maybe Ginny knows the answer...

Grace






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