Finally saw it! - Now Just the Ring.

[Carol]

md:
> > 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?
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> zanooda:
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> 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...
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Carol responds:

Ever looked at a genealogical chart of the descendants of Edward III? If we could take the descendants of his five surviving sons (one of whom was John of *Gaunt*) to the present day, including the various female lines and illegitimate lines, we'd have some idea of the relationship between the descendants of the Peverell brothers, who might go even further back. I've lost track of the descendants of my grandfather's various brothers, who would be (if they're members of my generation), my second cousins. If I go back four hundred years to my great x 8(?) grandfather, the descendants of his other children (if they're members of my generation) would be my ninth(?) cousins. Sure, we're related, but so distantly that it doesn't matter. At any rate, a chart of the descendants of the Peverell brothers' father would probably go back at least eight or ten generations and be nearly as complex as the Black Family tapestry (of which we see only a snippet on the Lexicon).

BTW, I doubt that Antiochus Peverell, who was apparently murdered soon after he used the Elder Wand to win a battle and foolishly bragged about it, had any descendants, so we're talking about Cadmus, whose descendants married into the Gaunt family (the Gaunts apparently being descendants of Slytherin through a female line), and Ignotus, whose descendants married into the Potter family, at what point we don't know, but again it had to be through a female line or the last name would be Potter, not Peverell.

Carol, noting that any two people on this list could be related as closely as Harry and Voldemort were