Last of the heirs?

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 140643

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:
> 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.
**snip** 
> 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

Doddie here:

If DD is the heir of gryphindor, then so would be his brother 
Aberforth. 

Perhaps this it was Slytherins mistake to leave. Perhaps Salazar 
thought he would take his house with him...but he was wrong.

JKR tells us that the houses are representative of the four 
elements, earth, air, fire, water..

You cannot simply remove an element...they all must exist 
simultaneously together...somethimgs they come together, sometimes 
not, sometimes water and earth may come together, or fire/air..or 
any combination there of.

DD was was probably the greatest head master because of his 
understanding of alchemy...

It is the potential of what actually could/would be accomplished if 
all houses/elements unite together that keeps all four houses 
intact. This is why Voldemort would prize/seek out artifacts from 
each house to create a horcrux. (a fire horcrux, air, earth, 
water)..In Voldemorts mind this would make his horcruxes more 
powerful. (seven....one for each element...etc.)

I hope I'm making a little bit of sense here. Sorry...I am in a 
hurry.

Doddie
(who wonders about slytherin/hufflepuff coming together and making 
mud)