[HPforGrownups] Re: Fawkes' Age, "Wormtail" vs. Pettigrew PLUS Harry Did Touch Scabbers

[Jennifer Angliss]

No: HPFGUIDX 54320

Quoting Steve <bboy_mn at yahoo.com>:


> I have also speculated that the 'Heir to Gryffindor' is not a
> biological heir, although that possibility isn't excluded, but the
> person who Fawkes chooses as his next master. It's sort of like King
> Arthur pulling the sword from the stone. It's based, not on how or to
> whom you were born, but whether you have grown to be worth of being
> the heir. Based on a quality of being, not a right of birth.

I like that idea, and it goes right along with what Dumbledore said at one 
point about how it is our choices and not our abilities that truly define us. 
Sorry I can't be more specific on the quote, but my books are 1000 miles away 
and I'm sure I got the gist of it.

Jennifer