Voldemort related to Harry/Harry's family

[pastafor5]

No: HPFGUIDX 60629

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "michaelgidlow" <boyzrus6 at h...> 
wrote:
> The idea that Voldemort is somehow related to Harry has been a 
> popular theory I've seen many times in speculations about the 
future 
> books. I've even read that Lily Potter is either Voldemort's sister 
> or daughter. I don't know about that, but it wouldn't surprise me 
to 
> find out that Harry is somehow related to the dark lord. After all, 
> why would Rowling make such a point in Chamber of Secrets that 
Harry 
> and Tom Riddle were so much alike in both appearence and 
personality <snip>? And what about 
> Harry's other family? <snip> "Michael"

I've also been giving this some thought.  Is it possible that JKR is 
using the similarities between Harry and Riddle purely to prove her 
point that it is our choices that show who we truly are?  We have two 
boys, both orphaned, neither pureblood, both powerful wizards for 
their age, etc.  So much in common and yet going in such different 
directions from the same kind of starting point.  The jury is still 
out on whether Harry is related to Voldemort (maybe OOP will answer 
that one), but it may just be they started out with the same 
problems, but chose very different ways to deal with them.  Some may 
say that, well, Harry had Dumbledore to guide him.  But we learn from 
COS that Tom had Dumbledore as well, but saw him as an obstacle 
rather than an ally.

With regard to family, I've just had another thought.  We don't know 
anything about James' family.  What if they were very much like the 
Dursleys, only from the wizard perspective.  Could They have cut off 
James for marrying a "mudblood?"  Perhaps this is why we don't see 
them, and why Dumbledore wouldn't have wanted them to raise Harry, 
passing their dark beliefs on to him.

Food for thought?

pastafor5