Finally saw it! - Now Just the Ring.

[Steve]

--- "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
>
> ---  "Child Of Midian" <md@> wrote:
>  
> > Here's what I don't recall from DH, if it was explained or not, 
> > are Voldy and Harry cousins if each are decedents of the three
> > brothers in the Hallows story?
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> I think JKR said in an interview that they are related. Not cousins though, but distant relatives, because the three brothers lived very very long ago...
>

bboyminn:

According to Hermione, the Perverell's were one of the first
wizarding families to die out, so that would make easily 20 to
30 generations between the Three Brothers and Harry and Tom. 

That assumes 500 years ago, it could have been longer. So, 
while they may be in the same family tree, they are spread
across extremely diverse branches of that family tree. 

Notice that neither the Gaunts or the Potters, are named
Perverell, so there is not even a direct patriarchal line
back to the Perverell's. 

If I want, I can trace my ancestry in England back to Gravesend, 
Kent, as far back as 1280. But I don't think I can rightly 
say I'm related to anyone in Gravesend.

I can also trace my ancestry back to Lyman Hall, one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence, but I suspect
if I went to the Hall family in Georgia, I would not really 
be greeted as family. The path between us is their, but it
is very convoluted. 

Yes, technically they are related, but the geneological distance
between them is go great and the common genetics so very thin, 
that beyond it being a novelty, I don't think it carries any
weight. 

Steve/bboyminn