Voldemort's descendants...and Dumbledore's truthfulness

[lady.nymphaea at faerielands.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27978

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote:
> VOLDEMORT RELATED TO HARRY?  I see that the old "Voldemort is 
> related to Harry" theories are starting up again. :--)
> 
> Aside from the fact that JKR has said in a chat that this would 
> be "too Star Wars-ish," which all but confirms that Voldie is *not* 
> related to Harry, there are genealogical problems with the theory 
> too. Dumbledore says that Voldemort is the *last* remaining 
> descendant of Slytherin.  If true, Voldemort has no descendants.  
> None.

I'm glad you put that little "if true" disclaimer in there, because 
I've seen many people get led onto the track of believing in an 
infallible Dumbledore. I know many of us don't want to believe that 
he could be lying to Harry, but I tend to question a lot of the 
things he says.

Does he know that Tom Marvolo Riddle has no children? How would he 
know that? Besides, what JKR said in that chat doesn't really exclude 
the Potters from being related to whatever family Riddle's mother is 
from somewhere along the line, not to mention the Evanses possibly 
being related to the Riddles. (That one's a bit far-fetched though.)

Speaking of other Dumbledore statements I'm a bit iffy about, I've 
always had issues with the reasons given for the Snape/Potter rivalry 
in book 1. It sort of fits with things Sirius and Lupin have said in 
later books, but there are pieces missing. Once again, how would 
Dumbledore know? I don't see Snape coming out and saying stuff like 
that, even to the most important person in his life.

Dumbledore's quite a bit deeper than people give him credit for, and 
I can't shake the feeling he's hiding something. I don't have my copy 
of PoA handy, but there were some lines of dialogue after the escape 
of Black that got me wondering.

Meril