Severus / character, place names

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 190159


> Geoff:
> I remember getting very cross when she revealed that because I wrote a long 
> post pointing out that Harry could have relatives because there could be very 
> distant ones of whom Dumbledore knew nothing.

Pippin:
Of course realistically there could have been other relatives. But we're not in the realm of realism here.  When she gave us Voldemort as the one and only remaining descendant of Salazar Slytherin, JKR let us know that we're  in   the same stew of romance and ancient beliefs that gave us the son of Skywalker,   Isildur's Heir, and the DaVinci Code. We want to believe, *Harry* wants to believe, that nobility of character can be inherited. And JKR invokes that belief in order to subvert it, and show us that  while ability can be inherited, nobility cannot, because it  rests in the choice between what is right and what is easy. It lies in doing what *doesn't* come naturally. 

Pippin