[HPforGrownups] Lily and Voldemort

[Jesta Hijinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 60381


>Could it be possible that Lily and Petunia are only half sisters?  I think 
>their mom had an affair with Voldemort- from which came Lily.  Perhaps the 
>affair and Lily's birth split Lily's mother and her husband up.  Petunia 
>could blame Lily for this and it could by why she hates her.  Then Lily 
>gets all the attention because it turns out she's a witch and Petunia is 
>jealous.  Voldemort comes back to kill his daughter, Lily, because she is a 
>mud-blood (like him).  What does everyone think?
>
>Karen
>
Karen - You know...I really enjoy coming up with more "mature" theories 
about what's happened in the course of the Potterverse saga = here I'm using 
"mature" in the euphemistic sense, to denote something that might be 
considered racier than would be ordinarily found in juvenile fiction.

The only thing is, JKR doesn't really write that way.  I've commented before 
- I think on this list, it may be on another one I'm on - about how Rowling 
writes a relatively old-fashioned, traditional world for the wizards.  She 
doesn't really beat us over the head with it: for example, one thing I 
observed the second time I read the series, and have mentioned (and it's 
been debated) is that there don't seem to be any obvious children of divorce 
in the WW.  That doesn't mean there *aren't* any at Hogwarts, and really, 
mentioning their family status wouldn't advance the storyline in any 
significant way.  But so far, the real absences of parents seem to be due to 
insanity or death.  !!!  That's a far higher rate statistically than among 
my real-life acquaintances and friends, even when I was at school back in 
the Dark Ages.  :-)  The only sort of separation/abandonment we see, not 
even really played as a straightforward divorce, is Tom Riddle/Voldemort - 
and look how he turned out!  :-)

So I can't prove or disprove that JKR doesn't have some children from broken 
homes as we know them in the WW - but I did note that everyone who's a major 
character has parents who stayed happily married at least till they were 
killed or driven insane.

So my thought on the textual likelihood of half-sisters as the result of an 
affair?  Not likely.  The result of a previous *marriage* - mm, maybe, but I 
don't think for the Evans sisters.  I really think that if that were the 
case, Petunia would have called attention to that repeatedly - I think there 
would have been half-relief, half-blame on her part that she and Lily 
weren't *fully* related.

And for Lily and Voldemort to get together?  I don't see that happening at 
all, ever.  I really think James Potter was her one 'n' only once she got 
old enough to think seriously about it - they both may have had crushes and 
flirtations before they got interested in each other, but again, think of 
how JKR writes:  ARthur and Molly were school sweethearts, too.

Felinia

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