Prince Harry

[Steve]

---  "Cabal" <md at ...> wrote:

> Steve/vand195550  
> 
> ...
 
> I've always wondered if there was some sort of blood relation
> between them...maybe that's why the connection.
> 
>  
> Carol Lynn Cumberland
> childofgod19832003 at ...
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> I presume you haven't read the books, then. They are not related
> -- the connection is clearly explained in OOTP, not so well in 
> the film, but very clearly in the book.
>

bboyminn:

It is not a question of whether Voldie and Harry are related,
but rather whether that relationship is anything significant.

For example, I'm related through a long convoluted process to
Lyman Hall, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence,
but they would laugh me out of the state, if I tried to claim
any inheritance or family rights to the Hall Estate. 

So, we are related technically, but practically or functionally,
it is a insignificant relationship.

Harry /IS/ related to Voldemort through the Peverell line.
Mad-old Gaunt, who is Tom Riddle's grandfather, can trace his
line back to the Peverell's. Harry can trace his line back to
one of the other Peverell brothers. That is where their 
mutual family tree intersects, but how far the family tree
fans out from the point of intersect is probably pretty large
and therefore insignificant beyond being an interesting bit
of information. 

So, they are related, but they are not related. As Sirius says,
virtually all the pureblood families are inter-related in some
way. It is just that in Harry and Voldie's case, the relationship
is distant and generally insignificant.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn