Last of the heirs?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 140642

I've been reading almost every post for over a month and didn't see 
this topic, but all the usual apologies if it's repetitive.

So JKR thinks Dumbledore's family would be a 'profitable line of 
inquiry'. I've been drawing a blank so far; except for Aberforth and 
new information about DD being mostly self-taught, there's little to 
go on.

But then reading COS, it ocurred to me Harry will undoubtedly vanquish 
the last Heir of Slytherin in Book 7, and if the last Heir of 
Gryffindor is also gone, what would that mean for the split in the WW 
started by Godric Gryffindor and Slytherin? JKR dismissed the heir of 
Gryffindor idea as it pertains to Harry, but not Dumbledore (in my 
mind at least). 

We have evidence, most as old as the list itself, that Dumbledore is 
from the Gyrffindor line. Like the griffin-door knocker on the 
headmaster's office and the fact Lily and James were hiding out at 
Godric's Hollow (even more likely now to be DD's home, since we know 
the Potters aren't heirs). Then DD is in possession of the sword and a 
red/gold phoenix. Each of these things can be explained away 
individually, but together they say something about the man, I think. 
I'd even add DD's watch, and the one he possibly gave to the Weasleys 
for Ron, as likely-to-be-revealed evidence of DD's heritage.

So if both heirs are gone, will that finally lay rest to the feud and 
the split between the houses, which symbolize the split in the WW? 
>From the sorting song in OOTP, it sounds like Slytherin leaving the 
castle, and whittling 'four houses down to three' was the basis for 
the split. If neither line exists anymore, perhaps it will be healed. 

Jen