Slytherin's heir or Gryffindor's heir?

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No: HPFGUIDX 113628

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "romuluslupin1" 
<romuluslupin1 at y...> wrote:
> Old Salazar built the COS, right? Only his heir could open it, 
> right? So how come both times it was opened a GRYFFINDORE was 
> suspected? WE know it was opened by TMR (both times) who is 
> Slytherin's last descendant/ancestor, and so does AD, but the rest 
> of the students/teachers suspected Hagrid (a Gryff) and Harry 
> (another Gryff). Ok, Hermione says that Harry *could* be Salazar's 
> (x-times)-greatgrandson, after so many years (and this applies to 
> Hagrid as well), but shouldn't this have raised some questions? 
> Wouldn't a Slyth have been more likely to be suspected, at least 
> once? I can see Harry being suspected, since he was a parselmouth, 
> but I agree with Diary!Tome (shudders)Hagrid was a really unlikely 
> culprit.
> 
> Romulus Lupin, who thinks this definitely proves the WW doesn't 
have 
> a lick of sense.

By the suspicion stage the school had already seen Harry as 
parselmouth (SS's distinguishing gift). Hagrid cos he's a half giant 
and yes, prejudice rather than sense or logic (of which wizards 
averagely have little to quote Hermione).