A far-fetched analysis of the Prophecy

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 70140

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, lissbell at c... wrote:
> Kirstini wrote:
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> (excellent textual examination of sorting issues in regard to
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> Slytherin snipped)
> > So, why would a non pure-blood get into Slytherin? Would the very 
> > fact of being his heir be enough?
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> Lissa replied:
> Oh *thank you* for bringing this up!  I've been stumbling to 
articulate my feeling that there is something fundamentally wrong 
with Harry and Tom being allowed to enter Slytherin in light of the 
Sorting Hat's song in OOP.  I've also been entertaining the idea you 
mentioned here--that being Salazar's heir is sufficent to qualify a 
student for Slytherin.
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> Kirstini wrote:
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> > Or how about the fact that, if one 
> > of his parents was a Weasley, the other a Potter, Tom Riddle 
would be considered pure-blood?
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Valky (me): 
In contradiction to mon capitan (a thousand pardons Lissbell), I 
actually prefer immensely this presumption. 
For these reasons:

1 If Tom is born of Harry/Ginny that is two pureblood on his side.
2 Tom and harry are highly powerful talented young wizards.
3 Slytherin is the house of ambition and *I* would go as far as to 
say it is not only _for the ambitious_ but also _ambitious for 
itself_. 

So two pureblood powerful wizard boys are offered the house of 
Slytherin. It makes perfect sense that Slytherin house would *want* 
them. True?

> Kirstini wrote:
> > I presume, Lissa, that your claim that *Harry* and not *Ginny* is 
> > Slytherin's heir is substantiated by the fact that Riddle never 
knew his mother, and therefore presumes that she is the only magical 
one and that the blood was inherited that way. How do you explain his 
> > knowing that he's the heir at all, then?


Valky (again):
The only response in support of Lissa's theory is that the neglected 
Tom probably entertained delusions of granduer as a child and _felt_ 
some amount of affinity for Salazar himself. I daresay he studied the 
head of Slytherin house's story at some length experimenting with 
ways to align himself t9o his chosen father figure much as Harry 
tries to align himself with the memory of his father until it is 
tainted.
In doing so he stumbles upon some startling revelations he can open 
the chamber of secret and unleash the monster.
I puport that this was the only evidence that Tom ever had for 
believing he was Slytherins heir. Interestingly, since only the heir 
can open the Chamber and command the Basilisk I should say it is 
evidence aplenty for his assumption. It might even be enough for 
ours.;-)

 
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