[HPforGrownups] Re: Foreshadowing Clues in CoS

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 52904

In a message dated 2/26/2003 2:14:10 PM Central Standard Time, 
scarlet1912 at hotmail.com writes:

> If I remember correctly 
> JKR has commented in interviews on the apparent mistake that 
> Voldemort is the last living *ancestor* of Salazar Slytherin, she 
> said something to the effect of "maybe it wasn't a mistake." 

I'm an amateur genealogist and unless Tom Riddle was born well over 1000 
years ago he couldn't be Slytherin's "ancestor".  An ancestor is a direct 
line blood relative that goes back through your line (parents, grandparents, 
great grandparents ect) while a descendent goes from your line forward. 
(children, grandchildren ect). I suspect that she simply got the words mixed 
up and it wasn't caught in editing.  

Or maybe Tom had access to an industrial strength time turner. He's his own 
grandfather (geneaology humor >:-))

Melissa


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