Heir of Gryffindor

[urghiggi]

No: HPFGUIDX 78517

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thetruthisoutthere_13" <
free_lunch_club at h...> wrote:
> 
> I suspect that Harry will be the *chosen* heir of Gryffindor. Given 
> Rowling's stance that choices matter more than blood, it will not 
> make sense for Harry to be a blood relative of Gryffindor. 
> 
> -kg

KG wrote this a few weeks ago; I came across it while I was searching posts 
about "who was the guy in behind the bar in the Hog's Head" -- and the above 
didn't seem to provoke a lot of comment. But it popped out at me today due to 
the strong King Arthur parallel. In such a case the "office" of being heir of 
Gryffindor would be analogous to becoming the Pendragon, as interpreted in 
CS Lewis' "Hideous Strength." (In other words, a nonhereditary, royal or 
semiroyal title conferred due to the proven worth of the recipient. In CSL's 
imagined world, the Pendragon is the titular heir of Arthur and the chosen 
leader of the essential Britain, as opposed to the 'realworld' sociopolitical 
Britain.)

This would not be the first Arthurian referent in Potterworld (Arthur was reared 
in obscurity, tutored by a great wizard mentor, and revealed his lineage by 
pulling a sword from an unlikely place.) On the other hand there's the entirely 
plausible theory that the Potters were so flush with galleons because it's an 
inherited Gryffindor fortune, making Harry the actual heir, not just the titular 
one.

Is there any group consensus (fanon) on the relationship between HP & 
GGryffindor? 

urghiggi, Chgo