HPB guess - King Godric?

[Bee Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 108727

Annunathradien writes:
However, Voldemort may have targetted and killed James - in this 
case - under false pretenses.  He may have just assumed James was the 
Heir of Gryffindor (or HBP) since he was the pureblood... and maybe 
he might have been one of the (distant) descendants of Gryffindor, 
just not the actual Heir or "HBP" (as I speculate above, some 
Gryffindor blood may have remained in the WW as well as the MW).  We 
read in COS Tom almost seemed fascinated about the amount of 
similarities between Harry and himself... for these similarities, Tom 
may have falsely assumed Harry inherited his "Heir" status from his 
pureblood parent, just as he believed he had.  Tom completely 
unawares and possibly not even daring to consider it's through Lily 
and her family (the muggle Evanses) Harry inherits his Heir (of 
Gryffindor) status?  Lily, who Voldemort was so dismissive of that 
night Oct. 31, 1981, was the rightful Heiress of Gryffindor all along.

  Could this 
*red hair* be a clue tying both the Weasleys and Evanses to a common 
(red-headed?) Gryffindor ancestor? 


Luckdragon64 responds:

I'm not one to trounce on anyone's theories as I believe until we read the next book one guess is as good and as interesting as the next, however I would like to bring up the fact that someone placed a good post a few weeks ago pointing out how interesting it is that everyone in the WW seems to be very aware of each others bloodlines. If Voldemort was trying to eliminate the heir of Gryffindor I think he would likely be the one to know who that person would be. I like the idea of the Weasleys being related to Harry, and it was mentioned in one of the books that all pureblood wizards are related somewhere along the line, but I think the relationship would be through James rather than Lily as Dumbledore mentioned that the Dursleys were Harry's only living relatives with his mothers protective blood.