Hogwarts Houses: Unite! (was:Re: The Power of Harry ...)

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> >>samajdar_parantap:
> <snip>
> One wild dramatic guess for your kind judgement : we already now
> Voldemort is a heir of Slytherin. Is it possible that Dumbledore is
> actually a heir of Ravenclaw ( given his cunning ) and Harry a heir 
> of Gryffindor ( courage ), thus bringing a thousand year old       
> fatefull drama to conclusion?  Don't know how to fit Hufflepuff in 
> this theory , though :-). Don't know if there is any Huffy         
> important enough.

Betsy Hp:
I do suspect that the ancient rift between the Houses will need to be 
delt with. Otherwise the Sorting Hat's song in OotP will remain a gun 
that never goes off (IMO).  But I suspect that it's going to take 
Harry's generation to heal the rift; that Harry will need to work 
with a symbolic representative of each House in order to defeat 
Voldemort; and that the House breakdown will occur thusly:

Slytherin: Draco Malfoy
Gryffindor: Ron Weasley (or maybe Neville Longbottom?)
Ravenclaw: Luna Lovegood (or maybe Marietta Edgecombe or Cho Chang?)
Hufflepuff: Zacharias Smith

Slytherin was easy.  No other Slytherin of Harry's generation has 
such an intense and meaningful relationship (though of course all 
negative) with Harry.  It's a perfect inversion (IMO) of the great 
friendship between Godric and Salazar.

Gryffindor could obviously be Harry himself.  But if Harry (as hero) 
is supposed to stand *in front of* a group representing the Houses it 
would make sense for someone else to hold the Gryffindor banner.  Ron 
is an easy guess since his family have all been Gryffindors since 
forever (as per family legend anyway).  However, Neville has always 
struck me as the best example of a Gryffindor in the books.  So I 
don't want to rule him out.  (Especially if Ron and Hermione have 
another role to play -- another support behind Harry.)

Ravenclaw depends on how easy we want to make it for Harry (or the 
Trio).  Luna Lovegood (while a tad frustrating for Hermione, I think) 
would be pretty easy to work with, and seems the obvious choice given 
her experience in the DA.  But wouldn't Marietta and Cho make for 
some delicious conflict?  

Hufflepuff was pretty easy if the assumption is made that Zacharias 
Smith is the grandson (great-grandson?) of Hepzibah Smith of the 
Hufflepuff cup fame.  Of course, it'd be easier on Harry et al if the 
Hufflepuff was Ernie Macmillan.  But where's the fun in easy? <g>

Honestly, if Harry has to deal with Draco, it almost seems more fair 
to make Ron deal with Zach and Hermione deal with either Marietta or 
Cho. (Though there seems to be some level of tension between Hermione 
and Luna.  At least, Hermione seems to have issues with Luna, though 
Luna doesn't respond in kind.)

The gathering of the Houses is one of the things I hope for in DH, 
and one of the reasons I think the Horcrux hunt might just make for 
some exciting reading.

Betsy Hp