Sharing blood (Re: Key points in CoS)

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No: HPFGUIDX 46731

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Suzanne Chiles" <suzchiles at p...> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it's a crazy idea but... We don't know almost anything
> > about Lily. What if Lily was a Salazar Slytherin descendant and
> > James was a Godric Gryffindor descendant. Consequently, Harry is
> > half Gryffindor and half Slytherin!


Wouldn't that be a lovely irony, a chief descendant of Salazar is 
muggle born and her only son is the child who defeats Salazar's true 
heir.

[...I've always assumed that some muggleborns may be the products of 
bloodlines where magic was thought to have 'died out', i.e. marriage 
between squibs & nonmagic folks (For whatever reason I think 
of 'magical abilities' as a sort of recessive trait, though many of 
the half & half students at Hogwarts defy that theory, unless of 
course their muggle parent carries the recessive magic gene.)]

But if Harry was a descendant of Slytherin, wouldn't that have given 
him some control over the basilisk in CoS? As in, at least confusing 
the giant snake as who was really it's master, or who was giving it 
orders? (Non cannon (not sure if this in the book): A particular line 
from the movie "Parseltongue won't save you now, Potter- the basilisk 
only responds to me." is what prompted this train of thought). 

Also, if Harry being a descendant of Gryffindor and Slytherin is what 
made the sorting hat so indecisive...then wouldn't Lily have been in 
Slytherin? 
(http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/transcript2.htm 
Q: Which house was Lily Potter in, and what is her maiden name? 
Rowling: [Lily]...was in Gryffindor (naturally). )


"Jess"