Lilly's heritage (WAS: Dobby in book 5)

[Grey Wolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 55043

finwitch wrote:
> Creaky stair... IS there something 
> under it? A key to Harry's maternal heritage is my view - well, 
> basically the Gringotts vault, invisibility cloak and the map are 
> Harry's paternal heritage. About time he learns of his mother, and 
> what *she* left for him.
> 
> -- Finwitch

Well, there are some things that Harry's mother has left him. That love 
shield, however it was produced, it seems obvious that was the last 
guift of his mother... a guift that, furthermore, saved his life. Then 
there are those green eyes, "the eyes of his mother" - more references, 
I think, than I can care to hunt down. Also, we don't really know what 
his mother was like personality-wise, but we *do* know what his father 
was like (by the teachers's descriptions, more similar to Greg and 
Forge than to Harry), so it is possible that Harry is more like his 
mother in personality.

It's interesting that all these things are more spiritual than physical 
in nature (yes, even the eyes - the eyes are traditionally "mirrors of 
the soul" and other such indications of the true self). Where his 
father has given him all manner of physical guifts (money, cloak, his 
body, maybe the quidditch abilities - although I personally doubt it -, 
the map, etc.), his mother has guifted him with spiritual things - love 
shield, life, those eyes (and all the powers they might contain), maybe 
even his basic personality.

But then, that's my guess. We don't really know enough about Lilly to 
tell one way or the other, except in the love shield case (and one 
single example hardly counts as basis for a theory). Still, I quite 
like it, considering I just improvised it.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf