Grandpa Voldemort

[m.bockermann at t-online.de]

No: HPFGUIDX 40546

Hi everybody!

Rosie wrote:
>I could see it as more likely that it was some witch, maybe besotted by the
young Riddle, but who he just used >& threw away. Then the young
Voldemort!Baby got handed over to foster parents.. who also adopted...
Petunia! >Thereby making it very nicely so that Petunia and her horrible son
AREN'T related to Harry, which I would like >very much. Perhaps part of the
reason she resents the "burden" of looking after him is that she always
>suspected that she and Lily weren't true sisters, and therefore not only is
she having to look after this little brat >dumped on her, but he isn't
*really* even her nephew.

And Richelle added:
I think it is possible that something like this could be the case.  Aunt
Petunia certainly doesn't seem to look very much like Lily, sure doesn't act
like I'd expect her to!  And it would be very satisfying for the readers to
learn that Harry isn't really Petunia's nephew!  Not to mention it takes a
pretty hard person or a person who doubts the relation to treat a blood
relative the way she treated Harry.  Who knows, maybe she knew she and Lily
were both adopted and didn't want it revealed for some reason or another.
She is one to keep a secret.
A revelation such as that would make for a light moment in what will
probably otherwise be a dark book with Voldemort returning and all.


I'm with you on the maternal Grandpa theory. And I agree that there is a
secret about Lily that Petunia doesn't want anybody to know about... besides
the fact that Lily was a witch.
I also want to add that we have already seen a bit of foreshadowing for it.
I'm sorry, I can't quote directly since I don't have the books with me. I
must fall back on memory.

Anyway:
Rember the scene in PoA where Aunt Marge comments on Harry's parents. She is
really pushing it *very* far here. She compares Lily to a literal bitch. She
claims that something like Harry can only come from bad blood. And she tries
to reassure Aunt Petunia that she can't be blamed - there is a black sheep
in every family. Aunt Petunia sits silently and doesn't comment, she is
squirms but she doesn't dare to say anything. Aunt Petunia! When was she
ever at a loss for words?

Now: go and read the scene with the maternal Grandpa theory in mind. If Lily
was Voldemort's daughter, she and Petunia might be only half-sisters or not
sisters at all, making Lily indeed some kind of "black sheep". Wether Lily
was adopted or the product of rape, adultry, secretly or accidentally
exchanged infants... I believe that somehow she didn't fit into the family
and Petunia knew or guessed it.

If the theory is true, then certainly Aunt Marge is closer to the truth than
she knows and that makes Petunia uncomfortable. Small wonder. Petunia talks
about Lily reluctantly at best. To say that she is the product of some kind
of family scandal is more than she can manage, even in the presence of
another family member like Marge.

Another point I'd like to make is that at the end of CoS Dumbledore tells
Harry because Voldemort, whom he owes the scar to, spoke Parsel. He also
explains about the scar and the question of choice. The wording is so that
the reader *can* interpret that Voldemort "rubbed" some of his abilities off
onto Harry. But it *doesn't* contradict the interpretation that he speaks
Parsel because Voldemort, his grandfather through Lily, spoke Parsel,
meaning that the ability was inherited genetically.


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