Thoughts about Voldy

[werebearloony]

No: HPFGUIDX 79034

This stuff has been running around in my brain for a few weeks now 
and I wanted to get it out before it goes crazy and starts breaking 
things.

Since there is so much parallelism in HP, and since we've been 
analyzing generational parallels, I thought I'd take a crack at the 
big one, HP-LV.  We know that LV is the heir of Slytherin, he's the 
last descendant (or Ancestor if you like) of S. Slytherin himself 
making him the biological heir.  So in comparing HP and LV we 
automatically think `Oh well Harry must be related to G. Gryffindor'. 
WRONG!  As much as I really, really like the `Harry is related to G. 
Gryffindor' theory I this it's wrong.  However I do think that 
the `Harry is the Heir of Gryffindor' theory is completely on.  
That's the point IMO; in Slytherin blood matters, so the heir of 
Slytherin has got to be related by blood to S. Slytherin, even 
tainted blood (see below).  But in Gryffindor it matters what you do, 
not who you are related to.  So Harry can be the Heir of Gryffindor 
by exemplifying the qualities of G. Gryffindor himself.  This JKR has 
already given us, Dumbledore, among others says that Harry is a 
perfect Gryffindor.  Add that to the fact that Harry is going up 
against the Heir of Slytherin and you might as well scrawl `Heir of 
Gryffindor' on the front of his robes in the stuff Ginny painted the 
walls with when she was possessed in CoS. 

Since we're talking about LV being the Heir of Slytherin there's 
something else that's bothering me.  `How did Voldy's mom hook up 
with a muggle when she's supposed to be from this notorious muggle 
hating family'. Rebellion works really well, even to the point of her 
being killed for having a kid with a muggle (the Slytherin family 
seems a nasty bunch and does it seem implausible to anyone else that 
she died in childbirth when wizards probably figured out solutions to 
that particular problem long ago).  It works too that his family 
wouldn't want him, half blood scum that he is, and would ship him off 
to a muggle orphanage.  And then Voldy killed them just like he 
killed the Riddles, showing that he kills all people who disagree 
with him not just muggles and muggle borns.  That's stretching a bit 
far, I see the yellow flags flying at me but it just proves that 
there is something wrong with that.  That's as far as I've chased 
this thought it just gets scarier as I go on.  Does anyone have 
better ideas out there?

Finally I'm going to tackle the oft asked question `How did Tom 
Riddle get into Slytherin if he's a half blood?'  Well it's easy 
enough; I've already stated that IMO in Slytherin blood is important. 
So therefore even though Tom Riddle was a half blood, that fact would 
be overridden by the fact that he is descended (or whatever) from S. 
Slytherin himself.

Well now my thoughts are out and I don't have to worry about them 
breaking into the sensitive areas of my brain where I've stored most 
of the cannon.

~~loony