Harry- heir of Slytherin?

[Ms Mo Me]

No: HPFGUIDX 98032

Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 02:31:10 -0000
   From: "stacya14" <stacya14 at hotmail.com>
Subject: Harry- heir of Slytherin?

<SNIP>
"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


Mo:

I think it might stem from the prophecy "He will mark
him as his equal."

Harry is LV's equal, but opposite.  He has a lot of
the powers that LV has.  There is a definite
connection between them.  Whether or not he is the
Heir, I don't know.  
Being an "heir" does not make you a direct decendent
of someone.  It just means that you have inherited the
line.  (I.E., if I adopt a child and leave all my
possesions to that child and teach that child
everything I know, that child will be my heir.)  I
think Harry could have opened the chamber because of
the likeliness forged between them


Now, on another note, LV did NOT open the Chamber this
time.  Ginny Weasly was actually the one to go and do
it.  We could also speculate that the chamber was
opened by Book!T.R. by way of Ginny, making it
possible for others to open the chamber, as long as
they know how through instruction.  Harry knew because
he spoke Parseltounge because of the ties he has with
LV.

~Mo, who doesn't know where she was going with this post...


	
		
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