Speculation on back story of wiz clans DD/Voldemort

[lennyb2002 <lennyb2002@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50977

Hello! I'm trying to post this. It's a speculation on what we might 
see in the upcoming books regarding the backstory. I find the general 
idea interesting, but with cloudy facts, and heavy speculation, some 
might consider it fan fic. With that in mind, if I've stumbled over a 
stated fact in the cannon, please call it, and of course, discussion 
and critiques are encouraged. So, here's the beginning of my 
hypothesis regarding backstory:

I cannot recall any mention of an heir to Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, 
only heirs for Gryffindor and Slytherin. Of 4 leading families, 
seemingly, only 2 are important. Why? Surely this isn't a flaw in 
Harry's 'viewpoint' of failing to ever hear of other heirs. 

It seems the only thing we do know about Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga 
Hufflepuff is that they are women. Gryffindor and Slytherin are men. 
Is it possible that the courtship of these leading families not only 
resulted in Hogwarts, but in marriage? Arranged marriage was very 
prominent in order to combine wealth and property. Thus, it seems 
plausible that Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff merged into a 'super family' 
with Slytherin and Gryffindor. In other words, Ravenclaw and 
Hufflepuff heirs are the the same as the heir of Gryffindor and 
Slytherin. 

Regarding Slytherin, he left Hogwarts after a disagreement regarding 
purebloods. He seals his chamber and leaves. 

Yet of the 4 founders, Slytherin disagreed only with Gryffindor. Each 
of the four had their own, distinct house making them assumably equal 
in say. This would render delegation next to impossible as plenty of 
votes would result in 2-2 stalemates. Perhaps it is agreed somehow 
that Godric is the supreme power of the school and can therefore 
overule Slytherin's segragational demands. Since Gryffindor owns the 
sorting hat, it is unlikely Gryffindor could be undisputedly 
named 'tiebreaker'. 

Slytherin leaves because he cannot convince Godric to outlaw 
mudbloods. I say that Slytherin and Godric share a singular vote. 
There are three thrones in this wizard world, yet four wizards with 
claims. Therefore, a majority/democratic vote can be achieved when 
only three votes are possible. The third vote is decided by 
Gryffindor, yet the seat is held by Gryffindor and Slytherin.

Now, to account for the validity of this idea. Simply put, history 
repeats itself. As Godric and Salazar share a birthright, so do Harry 
and Voldemort. Both have opened the chamber of secrets, meaning 
essentially, two people are the heir of the supposedly singular 
birthright. So.... 

Godric Gryffindor is the first born of a female wizard. However, the 
father is a muggle and (drawing comparison to Tom Riddle's parents). 
Anyway, the woman produces another child-Salazar, this time with 
a 'pure blood'. Sharing the same mother, Salazar perhaps claims 
himself first born via 'pure blood'. 

Blood aside, Salazar has a claim-he is the first born albeit from a 
second father. The Gryffyndor/Slytherin brotherhood might be compared 
with (I believe) the story of Jacob in the Bible. Jacob and his 
brother war in the womb. During delivery, Jacob pulls his brother 
back so he himself can be the first born. In HP, the 'twins' are both 
first born, and they're not twins. They have split the singular 
birthright of the firstborn. Since Godric is definitely the older 
first born, he has the senior perk of final say over Salazar in 
voting or decision making. 

So, now, it is reasonable to say that Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were 
split over Hogwart's accepting only 'purebloods' with Godric's vote 
being the tiebreaker. Salazar's bitterness against muds(whether he 
was even pureblood himself) is doubled as he cannot vote to keep 
Hogwart's 'pure'. He closes his chamber and leaves Hogwart's vowing 
that his rightful heir will one day cleanse the school. 


So, that's nice. This is the starting point, part 1. If anyone is 
reading this/this gets posted, I'll post pt. 2.