HPFGU Digest Number 1882

[midgiecat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 39256

 Re: puzzlers, and  possible sollutions to  puzzles


Varana wrote:
> Puzzle #2: Was James Potter an orphan?
> 
> Why have we not heard anything about James Potter's
> family? Does this 
> mean he doesn't have any living relatives at all? If
> so, what 
> happened to them?
> 

Doesn't anyone remember what Harry saw in the Mirror of Erised??  I don't 
have the book in front of me so I can't quote, but it said something like ... 
 not only were Lily and James Potter standing there, but rows and rows of 
people who looked very much like Harry, some tall and some short,  but many 
with that same "hard to manage" hair.  Generations and generations of 
Potters.  

I don't recall seeing a Riddle among them.  

Also, I believe Harry was told (possibly by Hagrid,, Dumbledore, or one of 
the marauders) that James didn't have to work at a job after Hogwarts, that 
he had inherited a great deal of money.  I can't remember if that was in a 
book, or did I read that in a fanfic.  

If this is so, he couldn't have been brought up in a muggle or wizard 
orphanage.