[HPforGrownups] Slytherins heir? Says who?

[kelly broughton]

No: HPFGUIDX 43585


--- bkb042 <brian042 at hotmail.com> wrote, when hypothesizing on how Riddle
found out about his heritage:

>  This is how he gained access to the Chamber and it's contents. One 
> of the items I think he discovered was a "Last Will and Testament" 
> which was enchanted with some of the essence of Salazar Slytherin in 
> much the same way that the diary was imbued with a little of Tom 
> Riddle. It was after Tom's possession by this document that he  
> literally became Slytherin's heir, AND aquired the ability to speak 
> parseltongue because, in a sense, Slytherin HIMSELF now lives!

Although I now understand that the 'ascendent vs descendent' debate is now
finished with the agreement that the ascendent comment was actually a
mistake, perhaps your theory is what Rowling had in mind while writing
CoS, and thus this is what caused her to write the 'deliberately' wrong
word?

Or IS it actually a mistake?

There will be an explanation sometime in the future (I hope!), and this
concept is probrably nowhere near what's going on in Rowling's head... but
it is still a very interesting concept.

-kel


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