[HPforGrownups] Brother and Sister??

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 1745


> 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........

Several reasons why this ain't so.

1) The age gap - Voldy was at Hogwarts fifty years before Harry in Book 2,
so must have been born in 1927.  Lily is therefore unlikely to be older, and
can't be younger unless she's only a half-sister.

2) If she's a daughter of Voldy's father, her parents could not possibly
have approved of her witch powers, yet we are told they did.

3) Voldy killed his father while only a teenager, not long after WWII.  Lily
could therefore only have been a baby at the time, and this is assuming she
had Harry relatively late.  I don't believe this is the case, as Sirius,
Remus and Snape don't seem more than forty at most, making all that crowd
born in the fifties at the earliest.

4) From what Petunia tells us, Lily and herself were not orphaned and knew
their parents.  Given the age ranges possible for them to be in their
childbearing years in 1980, they can't have been born much before 1950.


Jinx