CoS clues to Books 6 & 7 analysis / Salazar and Godric

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No: HPFGUIDX 104128

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Big D" <tubadave at n...> wrote:
>  
> I've long been a proponent of the theory that Harry could be 
related 
> in some way to GG, and the idea that GG might actually be the HBP 
> goes along with that, in my mind. It makes sense to me that JKR 
> might have originally intended to reveal a link between Harry and 
GG 
> in CoS, to go along with the link she revealed between Riddle/LV 
and 
> Slytherin, and then decided to leave the first part for later in 
the 
> series (but still hinted at it by having Harry pull GG's sword out 
> of the hat and later see his name on it.) As JKR told us 
> herself: "Certain crucial pieces of information in book six were 
> originally planned for 'Chamber of Secrets'." A delay in revealing 
a 
> connection between Harry and Gryffindor changes the story enough to 
> warrant delaying the use of that title. 
> 
> The rift that led to Slytherin building the CoS and leaving the 
> school (about what students should and should not be accepted, of 
> course) is often said to have been between SS and the other three 
> founders, but in one place (CoS, American paperback, p. 150) 
> Professor Binns says that "...there was a serious argument on the 
> subject between Slytherin and Gryffindor, and Slytherin left the 
> school." We've already had Riddle/Voldemort established as the 
> direct link to Slytherin, and I believe that Harry will be 
similarly 
> linked to Gryffindor, and the age-old dispute between the two will 
> find its final resolution in their modern-day counterparts. 

I like this theory.  It brings some sense to why the timeline of the 
Marauders is important to the overall story.  We hear so much about 
Harry's parents and their friends and we know that they fought LV 
bravely, but I don't think that JKR would stress that timeline if 
something extremely important to the overall septology wasn't 
embedded there.  Your theory would explain the importance of James to 
the story - since in that timeline before Harry, he would have been 
the (possibly the only) decendent of GG.  We also know that something 
HUGE will be revealed about Lily.  Could it be that perhaps James 
almost had what it took to defeat LV, but something about the 
combination of James and Lily, gives the extra something needed to 
Harry.

Kristen