Harry's Relation to Voldamort

Lady Promethia promethian_death at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 3 13:42:26 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 47637

This is only my second attempt at a post, and hoping it's
slightly 
more successful than the last one.  So, on with the post.

As far as I can tell no one has brought up the theory of the 
possibility that Lord Voldamort is a relation of Harry's on
Lily's 
side.  Now before everyone starts getting into an uproar about that 
being impossible please hear me out and try and follow my theory.
	This theory was partially inspired by the lecture I was 
sitting in a few weeks ago in my anthropology class when we were 
studying kinship systems throughout the world and comparing them to 
our kinship system, the Euro-American or Eskimo Kinship systems, when 
it struck me on a way that Harry could be related to Lord Voldamort 
himself, through Lily, and it still work that Lily * is * still a 
muggle-born.  Now, to help explain the initial part of this theory, I 
will use my own family situation to help explain the initial part of 
the idea, and then expound on it by showing how this would work in my 
Harry/Voldamort connection.
	Now, I am the youngest of my father's four children, but my 
mother's only child.  This is explained by the fact that my
father 
has been married twice, in where he had three children with his first 
wife, and they separated and divorced for their reasons and then my 
father met my mother and they married and then they, my father and 
mother, had me.  Making me both an only child and they youngest of 
four children.
	What's to say that something like this didn't happen in Tom 
Riddle's (Sr.) case?  I thin its kind of close-minded to say that 
Riddle didn't get re-married between the time of his first wife, 
Voldamort's mother, died, and his death, by Voldamort's wand,
about 
sixteen to seventeen years later.  Now I know there's a hole in
that 
Riddle and his parents were the only ones killed in the mansion, but 
my theory also does take into account that the second Mrs. Riddle 
could have been at some type of women's social even or maybe home ill
that 
night.  The only thing it doesn't explain is why she wouldn't
have 
been mentioned in the town gossip after the incident or why he was 
living with his parents.  Seperated/Divorce? Who knows, but I'm 
working on that part.
	But anyways, I digress back to the heart of the theory, which 
all relies on Riddle and second Mrs. Riddle having at least one child 
who is female.  Now this riddle daughter, is of course, a muggle 
herself, just like her mum and dad, who raise her and watch her grow, 
to a certain extent for Mr. Riddle in that he would have been 
murdered in her early teens, leaving second Mrs. Riddle and Daughter 
husband and fatherless, respectively.
	Now our young Miss Riddle continues growing and eventually 
meets and marries a young man by the name Evans, also a muggle, and 
they get married and start their own little family.  Of course the 
rest is history after their daughter Lily receives her letter to 
Hogwarts School of Whitchcraft and Wizardry.
	Now I hope that this somehow meets the requirements that 
meets how Lily could be a muggle-born witch, and still be totally, or 
not so totally, I believe that would be beyond the point of the 
theory, unaware "Uncle Voldamort," and also gives a reason
why 
Voldamort would be willing to spare Lily, if anything to 
study/interrogate her on her family history, and then dispose of her 
as well.
	I'm still racking my brain on how Snape might fit into the 
whole scheme of things, but I'm coming up blank and wondering if
any 
of the Snape theorists might have some ideas on how he might fit into 
it.  Or maybe not.  I don't know.
	Again, I'm hoping that this theory hasn't been brought up 
before and hoping that even if it has, someone might be able to get 
something out of this at least.  What ever way you look at this 
theory, I believe that it will be either proved or disproved in the 
next book, and this is the back ground history of Lily's that 
everyone is so eager to hear about and will severely test Harry's 
mental boundaries and what he perceives in his world versus the real 
world that he lives in, and how he relates and perceives it.

Thanks for hearing me out,
Respectfully,
Lady Promethia






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