Harry as Gryffindor's Heir

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 93537

vmonte wrote:
 
Why are there so many references to Harry's similarities to Tom 
Riddle/Voldemort?  Did Voldy really transfer his powers to Harry or 
is Harry really Voldemort?!  Is Harry another version of Voldemort?   
Is it possible that Harry is Voldemort?  
(I know this is crazy and I really don't believe it myself.)

Berit replies:

I'm glad you put in that last comment :-) I have a hard time 
believing Rowling's plot is anything like that :-) That's why I agree 
more with your conclusion:

vmonte wrote: 
I suppose the real reason Harry and Tom Riddle are constantly 
compared is because Harry could have turned out like Tom, but he 
chose not to let his past dictate his life. 
I'm pretty sure that it will turn out that their physical 
similarities mean that they are blood related.   

Berit replies:
I love quotes and usually won't form any theories not backed up by 
canon. So please forgive me, but here comes a couple of more quotes 
supporting the theory that Harry and Tom Riddle might be blood-
related (and sharing the claim to the Slytherin Heir title):

Quote:
"[Sirius saying about Pettigrew:]'...ready to strike the moment he 
could be sure of allies ... to deliver the last Potter to them'" (PoA 
p. 272 UK Ed)

Why the stress on Harry being the "last" Potter? The last in the line 
of... what? Compare this quote to Dumbledore telling Harry Voldemort 
chose him as the "prophecy-boy" because he saw himself in Harry. 
Similar appearance, similar abilities. Maybe even the same 
forefather. In Hermione's words:
Quote: "'You'll find that hard to prove [that Harry is not a 
descendant of Salazar Slytherin],' said Hermione. 'He lived about a 
thousand years ago; for all I know, you could be.'" (CoS p. 147 UK Ed)

For all we know, he could be... :-)

Ernie McMillan ties it up nicely:
Quote: "'That's probably why You Know Who wanted to kill him in the 
first place. Didn't want another Dark Lord *competing* with 
him.'"(CoS p. 148 UK Ed)

Of course Ernie's assumption that Harry is another Dark Lord is 
incorrect (I believe :-), but I think Ernie wasn't too far off the 
track on the other part: Voldemort didn't want competition. From 
someone *equal* (prophecy states Voldie marked him as his *equal*). 
Equal in power. Equal in abilities. Equal even as contestant to the 
title Heir of Slytherin?

Just my two knuts :-)

Berit
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