Book Two Discoveries!

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 119120


Jim: "I throw out a theory for scrutiny. Late in Book 2, Dumbledore
makes  clear that Riddle "is" (emphasis in the book itself,
Scholastic,  bottom of p. 332) the last remaining ancestor of
Slytherin ... could  Harry turn out to be the last remaining ancestor
of Godric Gryffindor,  with his lineage to Gryffindor (the half-blood
prince) disclosed in  Book 6 as an added reason for the till-the-death
rivalry between  Voldemort and Potter?"

JKR should have said "descendant."  The Heir of Gryffindor concept has
been popular for a long time.  The Sword of Gryffindor is just one of
the items that suggest it; the red and gold sparks that Harry shot out
of his soon-to-be wand is another.

There's no proof for it, but the arguments are persuasive; but I've
always had a problem with the theory on general principles. The wizard
world intermarries a lot, and by averages there should be Heirs of
Gryffindor all over the place.   You'd expect you could find, after a
thousand years, people who were heirs of all four Founders at once. 
Our world, the Muggle world, is a world where Ronald Reagan and Jimmy
Carter were sixth cousins.  We're all more closely related than we think.

Even with the "intellectual" problems with it, I wouldn't be surprised
whatsoever if the Heir of Gryffindor theory turned out true. 

Jim Ferer