Voldemort - descendent or ancestor

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 46871

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Klei <kela_bit at n...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Audra1976 at a... wrote:
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> > In a message dated 19/11/2002 14:29:49 Eastern Standard Time,
> > kela_bit at n... writes:
> > > I've seen threads about it "may being valueable one day", but 
> > 
> > >did anyone notice that the error is deliberate?
> >
> > Calling Voldemort Slytherin's "ancestor" was a DELIBERATE 
> >error?  So Voldemort's going to use a Super Time Turner to go 
> > back and impregnate Salazar's grandmother?

> Katsmall the Wise
> Or turn it a whole lot of time :-)
> Acctually, I put a quote from the chat, but it was a table, so it 
> disappeard.
> Quote follows.
> Q.:    Harry Potter for grownups again! Is Voldemort the last  
> remaining ancestor of Slytherin, or the last remaining descendent 
of Slytherin?
> J.K.:    Ah, you spotted the deliberate error. Yes, it should read 
> "descendent." That's been changed in subsequent editions. (Keep 
> hold of the "ancestor" one, maybe it'll be valuable one day!)
> 
> See the "Deliberate"?
> 
> 
 
Yes, I do see the 'deliberate', but as Eloise pointed out, 'you 
spotted the deliberate error' is British slang. It is short for 'ah, 
you have spotted the enormous mistake I made, which I really should 
have noticed and corrected, but which for some reason I missed 
completely.'



So Voldemort *is* Slytherin's last remaining descendant. This gives 
rise to speculation that the Slytherin descendants have invariably 
been so impossible to get along with that they have been slaughtered 
at a truly incredible rate. Either that, or they had such appalling 
interpersonal skills that they only ever managed to produce one 
surviving child per generation before their wife/husband 
decided 'enough of this, I'm taking a lover'. ;-)

Otherwise, by now, the entire British Isles, most of the Caribbean, 
a good part of the Americas, the majority of Australia and New 
Zealand, 10 percent of the Indian subcontinent,and a sprinkling of 
other nationalities should also be descendants of Slytherin.

Of course, the fact that Dumbledore thinks Tom Riddle was 
Slytherin's last and only remaining descendant does not necessarily 
mean that this is *in fact* the case. [grin]

Pip!Squeak