[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily related to the Weasleys

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 56450

--- Maggie wrote:
> Sorry to nitpick here, but if I've understood the relationships you have
> mapped out, Harry and Ginny would be second cousins once removed.  (I'm
> assuming that Molly and Harry's grandparent are first cousins once
> removed)
> Still distant enough for marriage in most areas, but squelchy enough for
> most people to avoid--especially if the relationship is known.  

*laughs* I'm from the South, so I understand the removed cousin rules too,
though they're rarely in use anymore in general and not in consanguinity
laws at all.  And no, they wouldn't be second cousins once removed if the
accountant cousin was Harry's grandparent.  LILY would be MOLLY's second
cousin once removed (or third cousin, in general parlance).  (For those
who DON'T understand the remove rules, the child of your cousin is that
cousin once removed.  Their child would be second removed, etc.)  Harry
would be Molly's second cousin twice removed, or fourth cousins, making
Harry and Ginny second cousins three times removed (or third cousins twice
removed, that's where I always mess up on these. *g*  Still fifth cousins,
however you add.).

Remember it wasn't *Ron's* second cousin was Lily.  It was *Molly's*
second cousin, and it would at the very least have to be one of Lily's
parents, if not a further remove than that, since Lily was the surprise
witch, not the accountant.


Andrea, way too interested in convoluted cousinships

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