Thoughts about Voldy

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 79165

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tom Wall" <thomasmwall at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> In this sense, `Heir' doesn't indicate simple relation. It 
indicates 
> something more specific... almost a kind of quest-related-
> inheritance. After all, we know that the only way to open the 
> Chamber is through speaking Parseltongue, and it's not a foregone 
> conclusion that all of Slytherin's descendents would be able to 
> speak Parseltongue. Therefore the true 'Heir' of Salazar 
Slytherin's 
> noble work would have to possess this particular skill.
> 


Geoff:
Canon disagrees with you here -

"Haven't you guessed yet, Harry Potter?" said Riddle softly. "Ginny 
Weasley opened the Chamber of Secrets......"

- presuming of course that Ginny isn't a Parselmouth.

(COS "The Heir of Slytherin" chapter p.229 Bloomsbury UK edition)