Foreshadowing Clues in CoS

[Macha <monkshoodgardens@cox.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52914

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 2/26/2003 2:14:10 PM Central Standard Time, 
> scarlet1912 at h... 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." 
> Melissa wrote:
> 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.  
> 
> snip>
Me: I have read in an interview (which I cannot remember) in which 
JKR states that when the word "ancestor" was used, that it was an 
error and it should have been the word "descendent"...so I would say 
that your assumption is absolutely correct.
Macha