Harry, heirs and blood

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58205

Bluesqueak comments;

Tom Riddle went through a growing-up process where he chose to be Slytherin's 
spiritual heir. Or, since we won't know what Slytherin truly was until  - 
well, maybe the next book [grin], maybe we'll find that the real Salazar 
Slytherin would have despised his remote descendent.

To which I (JOdel) reply;

Indeed, given that Riddle was raised entirely in the Muggle world and his 
*only* link to the wizarding world was one of blood -- which he neither chose 
nor had any awareness of -- Salizar would probably have regarded him as one 
of those "children with no connection to the wizarding world" who he 
distrusted and did not wish to see at Hogwarts in the first case.

Now, how ironic is that?

-JOdel