James' Father - was (Re: Lily and Petunia Riddle)

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 2200

Incredibly short post coming....

Then wouldn't Harry of seen Grandaddy V. in the Mirror of Erised?  

Scott  


--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, eliasheldon at i... wrote:
> Hey - here's an interesting theory that just occured to me:
> 
> What if Tom Riddle (Voldy) is the father of James Potter?
> 
>  - wait, this couldn't happen, one might argue, and point out the 
> dates and ages
>  - but - one thing we must remember is something that was said in 
> PoA, and I am paraphrasing:  many witches and wizards have messed 
up 
> their lives with time manipulation.  Perhaps Tom Riddle was one of 
> them!
>  - Tom, James, and Harry all have that jet black hair - perhaps 
that 
> is one of the reasons JKR pointed that out....
>  - we know nothing of James' or Lily's parentage, so this is a 
theory 
> about how James' could have been affected by time manipulation
>  - this would give us a good sense as to the motivation of Voldy to 
> kill Harry - maybe the Trelawny prophesy was that Voldy's grandson 
> would be his undoing?
> 
> This whole time manipulation thing will probably come up again....
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
>  - E
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 
> <linsenma at h...> wrote:
> > Hi --
> > 
> > eggplant88 at h... wrote:
> > 
> > > "Sister Mary Lunatic" <klaatu at p...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Lily and Petunia Riddle?  Not feasible for another reason 
> besides
> > > age
> > >
> > > Huh? why is age a problem?
> > 
> > Because Tom Riddle Sr. was killed in roughly 1943.  If Lily was 
> alive in
> > 1943, she had Harry at age 37.   This doesn't *really* square 
with 
> the
> > "young" woman who came out of the wand in GoF.  I don't subscribe 
> to the
> > theory that James & Lily definitely had Harry within a year or 
two 
> after
> > leaving Hogwarts themselves.  I think they had this important 
> occupation
> > (whatever it was) for several years at least.  I would peg them 
as 
> being
> > mid to late 20s when they had Harry.
> > 
> > > He shunned his wife not his son, he might not even have known 
he 
> had
> > > a son.
> > 
> > He said in CoS that his father abandoned his mother before he was 
> even
> > born -- because she was a witch.  You could be right - he might 
not 
> know
> > he had a son.  But, if he sired another "witch" (Lily), he *sure*
> > wouldn't be proud of her.
> > 
> > Penny
> > 
> > 
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