more speculation

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50005

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Simon Nickerson <sjnhp at y...> wrote:
> In message <65.73ef808.2b57b03a at a...>, srsiriusblack at a... writes
> >After having been kept fully awake in thought on our newly 
> >released lines... What if Dumbledore is actually James' father 
> >or grandfather. - The latter more likely as to age.
> -- - - - - - - --


> I personally don't believe this theory.
> 
> Firstly, if it were true, then Dumbledore must have been lying to 
> McGonagall when he said (in the first chapter of PS) "...his aunt 
> and uncle. They're the only family he has left now". 
> 

> Even so, this does not necessarily point to Dumbledore being a blood 
> relative of Harry's.
> 
> Just my ha'pennyworth,
> 
> -- 
> Simon Nickerson


bboy_mn:
I think there is some relationship between Harry and Dumbledore, but
not direct line of decendancy.

The best I can come up  with is that there are several branches to the
Gryffidor family tree. Dumbledore is in one, and Harry is in another.
Since Dumbledore seems to have no childred, and there is no mention
that his brother is married, that means the end of his branch of the
family tree; no more decendance. So the next nearest 'branch' to a
direct decendant of Gryffindor is the Potter branch. 

The distance in blood relartion between them could be pretty great;
branches on the opposite side of the tree. So Dumbledore doesn't
really qualify as a blood relative; at least not compared to Harry's
mother's sister.

The alternate theory is that Harry is the chosen heir to Gryffindor;
the chosen one, the magic child, selected not by blood but by destiny
to carry on the noble history of Gryffindor.

Then again, maybe not.

bboy_mn