[HPforGrownups] Brother and Sister??

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 1643

Julie wrote:

> It has been sugested that Voldy may be Lily's father, but what if he
> is actually her brother or half-brother?

Well, Tom Riddle the teenager showed up to kill his parents fifty years
before the start of book 4; the groundskeeper who beat the rap was a recent
veteran of WWII. [This makes Hagrid, who was a few years behind Tom in
school, older than I'd imagined, but Hagrid does remember James et al. at
school, after all]. And Dumbledore was a professor at Hogwarts when Tom and
Hagrid were there, but was headmaster when James and Lily were. So I'm
thinking we definitely have two different generations, here. Probably
someone else has worked out the chronology better.

> But he had killed a lot of people so why bother telling her she didn't
> have to die?

Because he was *EVIL*, the type of person who'd love saying that to a woman,
killing her son in front of her, and then killing her anyway. He's a tad
warped. Harry was the goal at the moment.

--Amanda