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

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 2202

In the first book, it mentions that Harry saw one of his grandfathers 
sitting in a chair (or something like that) while looking at the 
Mirror of Erised.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:
> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]