Tom & Harry - Heirs of Slytherin

[Keith Mascarenhas]

No: HPFGUIDX 60778

I had posted this a few weeks ago on another Forum, anyway, time has come for me to post it here:

Many will be reluctant, if not, totally disinclined to believe that Harry is one of Slytherin's heir's from his Lily's side of the family; nevertheless, it is a possibility that cannot be discounted.

What if Salazar Slytherin had (let's say) two children - we'll call them A and B, for convenience; it is possible that Tom has descended from the bloodline of child A; while Lily, and therefore, Harry have descended from the bloodline of child B.

It is also possible that somewhere down child B's bloodline - a squib was born. Wouldn't this be a shame to the mighty Slytherin Family? It is possible that the child was either:

1) Given up for adoption to some Muggle couple and grew up like a Muggle; but the Muggle parents, at some stage, spoke to the adopted squib, about his or her original Wizarding family or, he or she found out about his or her roots; or,

2) Grew up in the Wizarding World but turned to the Muggle World when he or she was old enough to (due to mistreatment by the Wizarding members of Slytherin's Family); and married a muggle and adopted their ways.  At some point in time, this squib child, living like a Muggle might have thought to himself or herself - 'wouldn't it be great to have wizarding offspring?' and, even though none came, the family's secret could have been passed on through generations - all of whom grew up the Muggle way! 

Then, one fine day, The Evans Family, Muggles with the tainted bloodline of Salazar Slytherin suddenly had a magical baby (with red hair and green eyes) called Lily.  Wouldn't Lily's parent's reaction be exactly as Petunia summed up in Philosopher's Stone - 'But for my mother and father ... they were proud of having a witch in the family' - when they found out that Lily was a witch!  Wouldn't Petunia hate Lily for this as she, Petunia, is, after all, a Muggle? Plus it does seem that Petunia is extremely jealous of Lily and Harry.  It is at least remotely possible, isn't it ?

Now I have my doubts that the proud  family of Salazar Slytherin would have felt the need to keep in touch (or have any records of Salazar's Squib descendent and his Muggle family); so all contact with this family could have been lost or broken.  Would Tom Riddle know anything about this? Very unlikely - certainly not from published information on Salazar Slyherin, in the Wizarding World, but it may have been possible to have "deduced" this from Lily's and Harry's green eyes.

Now, this is partally from canon, partially from what JKR said and partially from speculation, but this is how I think it could go:

Salazar Slytherin has two gifts (that some of his male heirs may posess):

1) Parseltongue (that's why the symbol of Slytherin House is a serpent) and
2) Some unknown gift that has got something to do with green eyes (why is one of the colours of Slytherin House, green?)

I am also willing to speculate that while females, in Slytherin's bloodline,  carry these powers, it is dormant in them. This is possibly because of  Slytherin's male-dominated attitude towards females; which has come down through the generations (I'll explain this in some detail later). So while Tom Riddles Mum and Lily carry one or both these powers, it is dormant in them, but only one of their male offspring will be gifted one or (perhaps) both these powers. 

This is why Tom has Parseltongue (which is so rare that only Slytherin, Tom and Harry have it) while Harry alone has the green eyes!  If Tom had the green eyes, Harry would have noticed them from the memories of Tom Riddle, down in the Chamber of Secrets!

However, thanks to Voldemort, Harry now has Parseltongue too but Albus Dumbledore could well be mistaken (because he tells Harry that unless he, Albus, is mistaken, Voldemort gave Harry the power of Parseltongue) and Harry could have also inherited Parseltongue from Lily.  

I feel that Albus suspects that Harry an heir of Slytherin, thanks to Lily and Harry's green eyes, but can't 100% prove it, as no documents exist, only suspicions; so doesn't tell Harry - why traumatize the boy, needlessly. 

Tom may have guessed this because of Lily's green eyes or, perhaps, Wormtail told him (having overheard it from Dumbledore or Sirius or Remus).   Remember that Wormtail - who was close to the Potters - was a spy for Voldemort and Voldemort may want to kill Harry because of this pieceof information. Also because  Harry may be some sort of a superwizard (being an heir of Griffindor from James side of the family and being an heir of Slytherin from Lily's side).

Voldemort kills James as he is an heir of Gryffindor. 

Voldemort may have wanted to spare Lily because:

1) Lily is a Slytherin - Voldemort wouldn't kill his own kind unless they were a threat to him

2) Lily is female (Voldemort, like Slytherin before him, feels that they are useless as they are the weaker sex and doesnt fear them.  Why else does Voldemort have only 1 female Death Eater in his inner circle? Why else do the Slytherins have an all male member Quidditch team? This also may be why females only have these powers in a dormant state - Slytherins seem to be in their own male dominated world)

3) While Lily holds those powers, they are dormant in her and possibly won'tcome out in another child of hers, again.

However, these are reasons as to why Voldemort wanted the infant Harry dead:
1) The Heir of Slytherin and Gryffindor combined.
2) Parseltongue.
2) The green eyes and they power that they possess.
4) He's male and is thus very dangerous to Voldemort.
 
This is what may be canon evidence backing the fact that somewhere down Lily's bloodline, there is wizarding blood:

Philosopher's Stone, Mirror of Erised scene:

Harry was so close to the mirror now that his nose was nearly touching that of his reflection.
'Mum', he whispered. 'Dad?'
They just looked at him, smiling. And slowly, Harry looked into the faces of other people in the mirror and saw other pairs of green eyes like his, other hoses like this, even a little old man who looked as though he had Harry's knobbly knees - Harry was looking at his family, for the first time in his life. 

At this point let's focus on one thing - 'saw other pairs of green eyes like his' - this is an Lily Evans trait, NOT a James Potter one' so those particular individuals that Harry was seeing in the Mirror Of Erised were relatives of Lily's.  Note that Harry see neither Petunia nor Dudley nor Grandma and Grandpa Evans (surely Petunia and Dudley have pictures of them at Privet Drive? surely Harry has seen those pictures?).  It thus seems that the mirror is only showing Harry his Magical relatives, only; which happen to include a few witches and wizards from his mother's Muggle bloodline - isn't this odd?  Thus, only one definite conclusion can be reached - Muggle-born Lily Evans must have some Wizarding blood in her bloodline.

Also remember this: 

Harry ----> Harold = Power, Ruler
Tom  -----> Thomas = The twin

This  indicates that there is some sort of a relationship between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle - and while there may not be an immediately close relationship; doesn't mean that the two aren't connected.  If they are both heirs of Slytherin, they ARE connected.


Lily's 'Mudblood' status:

Let's suppose that this Slytherin Squib married a Muggle, got a Muggle child and this child married another Muggle, also got a Muggle child and this happened quite a few times until a Witch, Lily, was born. 

Technically, yes, Lily might have some magical blood in her bloodline, but she is nonetheless a muggle born since the Squib's blood has been diluted by generations of Muggles contributing their blood in Lily's bloodline. Don't also forget that a thousand years have passed between Salazar Slytherin and Lily. and this Squib could have been born at anytime during this period. Remember that the further back the Slytherin Squib was born (from Lily), the more Muggle Lily's bloodline gets, so yes, there could be so much Muggle blood in Lily's bloodline, that the wizarding blood does not matter as far as classification is concerned, but she, by the bloodline, would still be connected to Salazar Slytherin - and that's the beauty of the whole darn thing!

Why did the Sorting Hat place Lily in Gryffindor and not in Slytherin?

1) She is Muggle born - I am assuming that, that in itself serves as an automatic disqualification for getting into Slytherin House. 
2) She  may have had plenty of courage (she willingly dies to protect Harry) and other Gryffindor traits.
3) She, like Harry may have asked the Hat not to place her in Slytherin - we are not privy to any conversation she might have had with the Sorting Hat.


Why didn't the Slytherins kill this Squib:

It is obvious that the Slytherin's would have killed this SQUIB OFFSPRING of theirs, ONLY if they could have GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT! 

What we don't know is the situation at the time:

How liked or disliked this Slytherin family was ?
How much political influence did they weild?
When/how did they find out that this child was a squib? 
How well known this child was among the general population (before the Slytherin family found out that he or she was a squib)? 
Did they have links with the Ministry of Magic or was the political power controlled by the Gryffindors at the time? 
What was the Minister of Magic like at that time - was he or she like Fudge or was he or she more action oriented? 
What was the punishment for killing a Squib or Muggle at that time?
Whether the Law Enforcement lax or was it vigilant at the time?

The parents of this Squib could probably gotten away with killing the squib or they would have been up to their noses in Aurors and would probably have been caught and thrown into Azkaban - depending on the environment and the factors mentioned above - there's no two ways about this! 

I assumed that being Slytherins, they accessed the situation and found that it would not be possible for them to kill their Squib child, as it would land them in deep trouble! 

So they either:

1) Gave the baby/child up for adoption or 
2) Treated the squib slightly better than a slave to encourage him or her had to leave when he or she was old enough

This would have saved their (Slytherin) butts from being thrown into Azkaban or from the kissy kiss-kiss of a darling Dementor - especially if the Law Enforcement was strict and justice was speedy at the time! Slytherin's are NOT known for they bravery, they are sly and cunning and would have done anything which would have benefitted them in the long run! 



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"Keith"