Harry's Relatives: his Uncle Voldemort and his sister Hermione

[psychic_serpent]

No: HPFGUIDX 44586

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "pickle_jimmy" <kemp at a...> wrote:
> I don't know if this has come past HPFGU yet/before, but I was 
> quite impressed and thought if you hadn't seen it, you might like 
> a read.

This stuff contradicts canon from the get-go.  As you know, we like 
to use canon as the basis for speculation around here.

[snip]

 > I have included only 1/10 of it, to give you a taste of 
> what 'Martel' has written - the speculation is supported by stuff 
> from the books, 

I roundly disagree.  Nothing you have included here has the least 
canon support.  Indeed, as I said, it contradicts canon.

> What I enjoyed most - To me, it is the very kind of twists I could 
> see JK putting in.
 
Not very likely, unless she has taken a blow to the head recently. 
(IMNSHO)

> -------------------------------------------------------------------
 
> Part 1 : Are Harry and Voldemort related ? 
> Here is my guess : Voldemort he had a sister. Voldemort's sister 
> married a wizard named Potter. She became the mother of James 
> Potter! So, if I am correct, Voldemort is James' uncle, and 
> Harry's great-uncle.

There is no canon cited here.  It contradicts canon by making Harry 
a blood relation of Voldemort's.  It has been confirmed by 
Dumbledore that Voldemort, at the time he was the student Tom 
Riddle, was the last remaining descendent of Slytherin.  That leaves 
out a sister.  There is no reason that Voldemort could not have had 
children in the intervening years without Dumbledore knowing about 
it, but no other relatives in his generation or before are possible 
according to the books.

> Part 2 : Why did Voldemort want to kill Harry ?
> Here is my theory : 
> Voldemort wants to kill Harry BECAUSE they are related.
> Voldemort wants to kill people who are blood-related to himself: 
> he killed the Riddles, he killed James, but he didn't particularly 
> want to kill Lily.

Tom Riddle didn't kill his relatives merely because they were 
related to him.  He killed them in revenge for the way they treated 
his mother who died alone after giving birth to him.  I believe it 
is also for the de facto abandonment of him as a baby that resulted 
from the initial rejection of his mother by his father.  The above 
theory also contradicts canon.  

> Now. why does Voldemort want to kill relatives?  We know what 
> Voldemort's supreme goal is: he is on a quest for immortality!
> My theory is that he has found (or has been taught) a path to 
> immortality, something very, very dark indeed, the darkest 
> of the Dark Arts, that involves taking the lives of his relatives!

Once again, the author of this theory is just making things up.  
There is no support in canon for this theory.  I have something like 
this in a fanfic I wrote, but I would never dream of claiming that 
it is found in canon.  I know for certain that it is not, and if I 
confused anyone about this, I'm very sorry, but fanfic is not to be 
used to support theses on this list.  

> Part 5 : Are there other descendants of Voldemort's father ?
> Consider this story: James Potter is feeling very worried as never 
> before in his life...  

[snip summary of what can only be called a fanfiction]

Again, this is contradicted by canon.  To write a summary of a story 
which, if it were canon, might support this theory is a very dubious 
method of arguing a point.  Again, the author is confusing fanon 
with canon.

> Could Hermione be Harry's sister?
 
Four words: Oh good lord no. 

I shudder to think what else is on this person's web site.  Is the 
author reading the same books, one has to wonder?  Thank god for 
this list...

--Barb

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