Brother and Sister??

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 1650

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Julie " <tattsbaby at h...> wrote:
> 
> It has been sugested that Voldy may be Lily's father, but what if
he 
> is actually her brother or half-brother? That would make a little 
> sense because he said she didn't have to die.  But he had killed a 
> lot of people so why bother telling her she didn't have to die? 
> Voldy's mom died during his birth, but what if Lily was born before 
> Voldy........

This clearly does not work, generation-wise.

Based on NHN's death-day, CoS occurs during 92-93 school year.
CoS being opened exactly 50 years before, means that was the 42-43 
school year (high points of WWII), and Tom Riddle was 16 then IIRC, a 
prefect, a 6th year; and Hagrid, age 13.  That makes Hagrid born 
~1930, Tom born ~1927.  Riddle would have graduated then in 1944, 
dropped out of sight soon after.   We'll return to Riddle below.

We seem to agree that Lily and James were APPROXIMATELY in the same 
year as each other, +/- 2-3 years. Sirius & Lupin chronologically
seem 
to be about in their early 30's in Books III-IV, maybe are really in 
late 30's or early 40's if wizard talent slows aging process or at 
least provides more energy/greater ability of body to hold itself 
together and function at advanced ages.  They are classmates,
probably 
same-year classmates, as James, so he would be around that age. 

At any rate, the NHN death date makes Harry to have turned 11 in July 
1991, making him born 1980, and making parents' death 1981; if
parents 
are in the range of 25-30 when he was born, as opposed to fresh out
of 
school (after all they had time to accumulate considerable wealth, 
based on Gringott's, and we know from JKR hints that (1) their 
occupation will be important, (2) it will explain their wealth
source, 
and (3) eventually be revealed) it is further likely that if Lily was 
around 27-30 or less when Harry was born, they graduated around the 
period 1967-70.  If she graduated around 1967-70 at around age 
seventeen, she was born around 1950-1954.  Thus, unless a time-turner 
was involved, it becomes very difficult for Lily to be Riddle's older 
half-sister - she should instead be about 23-27 years YOUNGER than
he, 
or else James, who should likewise be born around say 1948-1956,  
would be marrying a woman 20 years *older* than he.

-Brooks