Harry- heir of Slytherin?

[stacya14]

No: HPFGUIDX 97939

It has been a very long time since I have visited this site; so 
please forgive me if someone else has already throughly covered this 
topic.

However, as I was re-watching COS today (movie), all of a sudden a 
thought hit me: surely Harry must be an heir of Slytherin.  How else 
would he be able to open the chamber?  Of course, I headed straight 
for the book to see if I could substantiate this thought.

"The heir alone would be able to unseal the chamber of secrets,..."
COS chapter nine pg 151 amer. ed. (Professor Binns telling the class 
about the legend of the Chamber of Secrets.)

I know it is also possible that this just means that only the heir 
can open it the first time, but others could do it later. Thus V 
opened at school, so now Harry can. But so many other things about 
Harry seem to point to this: his green eyes (which are mentioned 
more times than I can count), his likeness to Tom Riddle (pg317 
CoS), the sorting hat wanting to put him in Slytherin, even 
Dumbledore admitted that Harry has many qualities that Salazar 
Slytherin looked for (CoS pg 333). 

Now I know that many people (me included) think that Harry is a 
distant relative of Godric Gryffindor.  And I don't think that Harry 
being an heir of Slytherin means that he can't be an heir of 
Gryffindor.  On the contrary, I believes it's possible that he's an 
heir of both of them (of course there's loads in the books that 
point to him being an heir of Gryffindor).

But enough about what I think. What do you think? I'm interested to 
hear arguments for or against what I've said!

Stacy