Fudge and Harry as Gryffindor's heir

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 108085

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
<snip> 
> Jen: But JKR is the one who made a person's bloodline important, if 
> only to overcome it in the end! She already tells us Riddle is the 
> last descendant (whatever) of Slytherin. He chose to believe in 
> Slyterin's "noble" work and take it to the extreme. Harry could 
also choose to be a Barty Crouch, Sr. and take his hate for the Dark 
>Arts and Voldemort to an extreme. But he hasn't and won't. 
> 
<snip>

Well, it's not so much a person's bloodline, as an ideology of blood 
that has a very important place in the Potterverse. People, such as 
Riddle, who embrace this ideology, let their genealogy determine (or 
rather, excuse) their behavior. I think that JKR presents this as a 
false and dangerous ideology - when taken to its extreme it becomes 
the Pureblood-Mudlbood racism. 

That's not to say that people don't inherit various traits from their 
parents. However, as far as I can tell, what is inherited are  
abilities, not moral tendencies (which is why I tend to believe that 
Parseltongue is not evil in itself). 


Naama