[HPforGrownups] Re: A far-fetched analysis of the Prophecy

[lissbell at colfax.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 70485



>>Kirstini wrote:
>>>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?

> Valky replied with tremendous grace: 
> 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?


Lissa nodded and replied:
Yes.  Quite true.  It does make sense.  If Slytherin house could see the 
boys' potential, I doubt it would happily pass them up.  And all that 
old wizarding blood with only a single muggle-born witch in the mix?--I 
can accept that Salazar might define both boys as purebloods despite 
what Dumbledore says.

You disagree so very kindly, Valky!  :)

I think you're probably right--not only because of the arguments you 
presented above, but because I've considered it for several minutes and 
it simply fits better in Rowling's scheme.  If she dropped the Sorting 
Hat song in as a clue designed to raise some eyebrows, then my other 
theory that Slytherin descendants automatically qualify offers no 
element of surprise in regard to Tom Riddle.  (It just offers the small 
surprise that Harry is a Slytherin descendant.)  We already know Tom has 
Slytherin blood.  The key to his sorting really ought to be related more 
directly to the main mystery.

Avoiding her homework rigorously,
Lissa B