A far-fetched analysis of the Prophecy

[ellejir]

No: HPFGUIDX 70211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, lissbell at c... wrote:
> "I don't think Harry Potter is Tom Riddle Sr.  I think a memory-
altered Ginny Weasley goes to the past pregnant with Harry's child 
and doesn't realize she's pregnant.  She and Riddle Sr have a brief 
affair which *she* believes results in the pregnancy.  Because she 
believes it and because Riddle Sr himself probably at least half 
believes it, these beliefs are presented as facts to Tom Riddle Jr 
and he accepts them."

Me:  This is an interesting theory, but there are a number of 
problems with it.
1. As has been pointed out by others, Tom Riddle *is* Salazar 
Slytherin's heir since he is able to open the Chamber of Secrets.
2.  Tom Riddle himself says in CoS: "I, in whose veins runs the blood 
of Salazar Slytherin himself, through my mother's side."  Assuming 
Ginny is his mother, there are a lots of other Weasleys out there in 
whose veins also runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin.  
3.  I read an interview with JKR at one time in which she was 
discussing the issue of these books taking a darker turn and the 
large audience of readers who are children.  She stated that she 
would not soften up the hard issues and deaths in the books that she 
has in her master plan for the series, but that certain things would 
*not* be included as they would be inappropriate both for the 
characters and the audience.  She gave as an example Hermione having 
a teen pregnancy.  I would probably include promiscuious, pregnant 
Ginny in that same vein of not-too-appropriate story lines.  I might 
be wrong.  Elle