Here's a very strange thought I had about Dumbledore and Voldemort

[Joanne Collins]

No: HPFGUIDX 15925

>I don't think the father/son thing is possible.  Voldemort needed the 
>bones of a member of his family in the resurrection spell, and used 
>those of his father, Tom Riddle.   If he hadn't been his father, 
>wouldn't the spell have failed?

It's a pity...it's a fun theory. Oh, well *sigh*.

>The brother thing I think is also unlikely.  Dumbledore is 150, 
>acccording to JKR recently, 

Where was this?

>and if Voldemort was 15/16 50 years ago, 
>that would make him in his 60s.  As Voldemort's parents were 
>obviously quite young when they got together, (gleaned from 
>descriptions of the dead bodies etc, and that she was young enough to 
>have children) I don't think that this is physically possible.

Half brothers? Dumbledore's mother was a 'bit on the side'? Riddle and
Dumbledore's mother had one encounter and she didn't tell him? Dumbledore's
mother was Riddle's first?

Or there's the option of Dumbledore's parents being related to Voldemort's...

>(I did consider whether Dumbledore could be related to Voldemort's 
>mother, but she is descended from Slytherin and Dumbledore is a 
>Gryffindor, so this again seems very unlikely.)

Not impossible, though...

Joanne.