Scream Wand/Priori Incantatem & other crazy questions

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No: HPFGUIDX 52894

> Cathy wrote: 

Has there ever been any discussion about the possiblity that the 
spell did not work not only because of Lily sacrificing herself to 
protect Harry, but also because Harry is the heir to Gryffindor and 
the feather in Voldemort's wand was from Fawkes who was likely 
Gryffindor's bird and therefore wouldn't work properly against his 
true heir (like it wouldn't work properly against Harry's wand)? 


Me:

I like this idea, but I've always been a bit unclear about the 
heir to X situation.  Is the heir to X-house-founder the heir because 
they are blood relations, or is there more to it?  

*heir = blood relations:
It makes sense to me that anyone with Gryffindor blood would be 
_an_ heir to Gryffindor.  (Btw, this means that Riddle/Voldemort 
being _the_ heir to Slytherin means that he was the only living blood 
relation left - and therefore Lily couldn't be related to 
Voldemort.) If this is the case, then Voldemort's wand not working on 
Harry because he's got Gryffindor blood would also mean the wand 
wouldn't have been able to work againt James, too - since James is 
the one who would have passed down Gryffindor blood to Harry since 
Lily is muggle-born.  (Or does this mean that Lily _has_ to have 
Gryffindor blood in her somewhere, way back?  I think this is the 
only way for both Cathy's great idea and this heir/blood-relation 
idea to work.)  
 
*heir = something more than (but possibly including) blood:
Is there any textual evidence that there is something more magical 
at play here, perhaps some of that deeper, familial magic?  Or are 
there any theories about this?

 - nobody's rib