hair and heir

[maidne]

No: HPFGUIDX 58783

Just a few thoughts about heirs, provoked by recent threads:
  
1) If Godric Gryffindor was red haired, maybe the Weasleys, rather 
than Harry, are the true heirs of Gryffindor.

2) Given that Tom Riddle was abandoned by his father, and his mother 
died soon after he was born, it is possible that he knew (knows) 
little or nothing about his ancestry.  Whether he was blood related 
or not, he must have studied Slytherin's life to have found out about 
the Chamber of Secrets and how to open it.  With no way to prove or 
disprove his lineage, he may have proclaimed himself Slytherin's heir 
simply based on their shared gift of parseltongue.  It would seem to 
fit for an unhappy, orphaned child to dream of being an unknown 
member of an important family.

Susan