Family for Harry (was Re: Dramatic Engine: Fear v. Desire)

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 1226

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "snuffles " <msmacgoo at h...> wrote:

> But is his family dead? Just because his paternal family (who 
> appear in the Mirror)

The description of the people who appear in the Mirror includes green 
eyes like his. The green eyes come from his mother's side, so it is 
implied that the family shown in the Mirror includes people from the 
maternal / Muggle side. I don't think it is certain that the family 
members shown in the Mirror are all dead -- but I also don't think it 
certain that they ever existed as individuals. The Mirror showed 
Ron himself as Quidditch hero and Head Boy, and there is no reason 
to believe that to be a true vision, so Harry's vision of his 
relatives could also have been a false vision.

> what about his maternal family? Where are they? Can it be that 
> James was the only  child of only children and Lily one of two
> siblings of two only children? 

As for James, it seems that wizard folk tend to have small families 
so it is possible that he WAS an only child. However, it is also 
possible that he had a sibling or two and they and the parents 
were all killed by Voldemort. Especially if Voldemort had a 
'crusade' against Potters.

As for Lily, Dumbledore said in Chapter 1 of Book 1 that the 
Dursleys are Harry's only relatives now. That strongly implies that 
Lily and Petunia's parents are dead. I don't have any problem 
believing that Lily and Petunia's parents had only two children, 
wwhich is a pretty frequent number of children per family, but I do 
wonder what happened to Harry and Dudley's grandparents. Did Petunia 
murder her own parents out of sibling rivalry?