Past and future speculations -- and a bug

[jferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 43445

Julie:"* James Potter's ancient (?) wizarding family will turn out to 
have been descended from both the Gryffindors and the Slytherins.    
I'm fairly convinced he shared not-too-distant ancestry with Tom      
Riddle (another possible explanation for Harry's being a 
Parselmouth, aside from Dumbledore's explanation that he may 
ave acquired some of Voldemort's power when he survived the          
killing curse)."

That could all be true, but what troubles me is that, with the wizard 
world as small as it is and how ancestry works, everybody is pretty 
much related anyway. Normally, there'd be heirs of Slytherin and 
Gryffindor all over the place, and it wouldn't be hard to find people 
descended from every one of the Hogwarts Four.  It would be like going 
to Prince Edward Island or Cape Verde and trying to find somebody who 
isn't related to everybody else there. OTOH, we know there's 
*something* special that made James Potter *and his son* Voldemort's 
special targets.

Jim Ferer