Harry & Elf Blood ( was Harry & the Fisher King)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 106778

Jen said: 
> When does JKR's story begin? My speculation is starting to remind 
> me of the wounded Fisher King in the legend of the Holy Grail, 
> where he & his desolated country can only be healed if 
> an 'innocent' comes to his castle and asks the correct 
> question: "Whom does the Grail serve?" or "What ails thee?"

> This is an interesting analogy because Harry is definitely the 
> innocent who arrives at the castle, but he doesn't ask questions!!
> When will he ask the crucial question and what will that question 
> be? 
 
Valky replied:
> He *has*, Jen.
> Harry came to the castle with one burning question on his mind 
that 
> parrallels both:  whom does the grail serve? AND what ails thee?
> 
> "Who am I?" "Who is Harry Potter"
> 
> Harry even answers a question about wether he is Harry or not 
> with "Oh him..." in PS. 

Jen: And also, 'whom does Harry serve'? I'm a little confused by 
your answer Valky, even though it struck me as an "aha" moment when 
I read it. Probably because I pictured Harry asking the question 
about someone or something else, at a pivotal moment.

When you talk about 'who is Harry Potter' it makes me wonder again 
about his blood. And Lily's, Petunia's and Dudley's. Valky, you were 
in a discussion about those particular characters having Elf blood, 
which was very interesting (and could explain Petunia's cleaning 
obssesion!). Now I'm thinking the connection with Godric Gryffindor 
seems almost a given, a paralle to Riddle's connection with 
Slytherin through his mother's bloodline. I thought having 
Gryffindor's blood played a role in saving baby Harry, but Charme's 
idea of Elf blood is growing on me.

So hey, maybe Godric was an Elf before they became enslaved, eh? 
Actually, I wonder if in the fight with Gryffindor, Slytherin didn't 
put a spell on GG to become an Elf, his bloodline forever enslaved 
until the 'innocent' born of his blood appears at the castle. Say it 
only affected everyone who came after Godric, and a branch of his 
family remained human, and is the branch Harry descended from. That 
branch started marrying Muggles and no one with magical powers was 
born until Lily. And then.....ta da, Harry the 'pure of heart' was 
finally born and marked as an equal to the last remaining descendant 
of Slytherin. Whoo, I could go on....but will see if Charme, Valky 
or anyone else wants to speculate with me!

Jen, speculating wildly and wondering if that makes Dobby and Harry 
related.