Harry's discoveries

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 108382

Andromeda:
I would add:

4. Harry discovers that there are a lot of similarities between
himself and Riddle/Voldemort.

Geoff:
And of course...

5. Tom Riddle is Voldemort.


vmonte:

6. He also learns what "mudbloods" are and that certain pure blood 
families feel they are superior to them. Ron also explains that 
wizards would have died out if they had not intermarried. (This is 
similar to Sirius comment in OOTP that purebloods were forced to 
intermarry in order to continue their purity-lines. Which probably 
means that all pureblood Slytherins, Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, and 
Ravenclaws, contain blood ties from all four founders.)
Could this mixing have actually weakend their blood? You know when 
cousins, etc, intermarry you often get genetic problems. Aren't there 
royal bloodlines in history that carried Hemophilia and other 
maladies down through generations? (Heck maybe the halfblood prince 
is Snape?)

vivian