Fudge and Harry as Gryffindor's heir

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 108094

Naama:
> 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. 

Jen: I think you're right, that *is* the main significance of blood 
so far. It's just the Half-Blood Prince title has me wondering. All 
of JKR's titles are literal so far, and unless this title is 
mysterious and means nothing like what it sounds, then she's 
introducing lineage again, like Riddle descending from Slytherin. We 
are going to literally meet or be re-introduced to a half-blood 
prince or a prince of half-bloods (or both).

And if the title doesn't refer to Tom Riddle, which we know now it 
doesn't, then it could be referring to the lineage of one of 
the "good" guys....it just makes me start wondering about all the 
blood stuff again, trying to see it in a different way, more from a 
gray perspective than a black/white one. Speculating on the idea 
that knowing your origin doesn't have to be a bad thing, in the 
sense that Voldemort and the Blacks use it, for superiority and 
blood purity. That a person can also overcome a perceived "good" 
origin to be other than who their family wished them to be. Someone 
who was supposed to be a prince and gave up their status to be a 
commoner, or something of the like (sorry, not up on royalty 
phrases!).

Jen, just speculating a little.... :)