Heir of Gyffindor (Re: Pettigrew was Potter's Secretkeeper)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 161132

Jeremiah:
> Hey, has anyone written about the correlation of Voldemort being the
> Heir of Slytherin and Harry possibly being the Heir of Gryffindor?
> (JKR had mentioned the godric Hollow wasn't a coincidence... and DD
> said that "only a true Gryffindor" woulf pull the sword from the hat-
> meaning more than just being in the House).
 
> Eddie:
> Further, is it possible that Harry is the _LAST_ heir of Gryffindor,
> as Voldemort is the last heir of Slytherin?


Jen: JKR nixed Harry as Heir of Gryffindor this Summer in the TLC/MN 
interview. JKR was asked about Harry's extended family and talked 
about his grandparents and such.  Then here's what transpired:

MA:  That sort of shuts down Heir of Gryffindor [theories], as well.

JKR: [Pause] Yeah. Well-yeah.

So the door may be shut on Harry but I definitely think she leaves the 
door open for Dumbledore.  I don't have time to find a post I wrote 
the summer of HBP with canon about this, but the biggest thing is that 
James and Lily were staying at Godric's Hollow and from the 
conversation in POA, it doesn't sound like they were necessarily 
living there before they 'went into hiding'.  Since Dumbledore was 
involved in their protection, it's possible this was his ancestral 
home. And Aberforth's.  I believe they are the last Heirs of 
Gryffindor and this will be significant for the story when both are 
gone (as well as the last Heir of Slytherin).

Other small bits of canon for this--the gryffin door knocker on the 
Headmaster's door which is likely DD's and not belonging to the office 
since how many other headmasters who aren't Gryffindor would like 
that? :) Other posters, Talisman is the one I remember, have proposed 
that Dumbledore put the sword in the Sorting Hat for Harry to find 
when he was forced to leave Hogwarts in COS.  The sword and Fawkes 
were his way of trying to protect Harry in his absence.  

Plus we have JKR's comment that Dumbledore's family would be 
a 'profitable line of inquiry'. Oh, and one more bit, perhaps Riddle 
feared Dumbledore because of the ancestral argument from long ago when 
the other three Founders sided with Gryffindor?  Seems like history is 
repeating itself.

Jen, who obviously loves this line of speculation.