Why the Potters?

[David Burgess]

No: HPFGUIDX 58398

>My questions are therefore:
>
>1)    Are there heirs of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw alive in this time
>frame?

I'm going out on a limb here.

Has anyone but me noticed that Hermione and Ron seem to be in the wrong
houses?  Clearly, these two should have been sorted into Hufflepuff and
Ravenclaw (respectively? I don't have my books handy).

Why would the sorting hat put them all into the same house?

To put them together so that they could continue the work of their ancestors?

Yes, I am suggesting that Ron (who comes from a pureblood family that
could easily go back to a certain Miss Ravenclaw) is the heir of that
bloodline.  I'm still a little how Hermione ended up here (coming from a
Muggle family) but it does seem to follow that she's either the heir, or
the image of, Miss Hufflepuff.

>
>2)    Will the return of the heirs of each of the four founders signal
>the oft hinted *end of Hogwarts....*

No, but I think that the heirs of the four founders will have one big
battle at the end and at least two of them will die in the process.  Since
Voldemort didn't have any kids we know about, it makes sense that the
other three will vanquish him, just as their ancestors removed Slytherin
from the school 10 centuries ago.

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Dave Burgess
Bellevue, NE 68123