Voldemort related to Harry?

[lhunneb]

No: HPFGUIDX 60692

I know it's fun to speculate, but I don't think it's possible for 
Harry to be related to Voldemort - at least not in a genealogical 
sense.  DD states very clearly that Voldemort was the last remaining 
heir of Salazar Slytherin.  If Voldemort had had any children, this 
would not be the case.

Also, in CoS, Harry tells Voldemort that his own "muggle-born mother" 
stopped Voldemort from killing Harry by giving her life for his.  
This confirms that she wasn't descended from Voldemort, because he 
was certainly a wizard, although with half-muggle ancestry himself.

I think that on the maternal side, Harry's family were definitely 
muggles until his mother.  If there is any relation to DD, it is on 
his paternal side, or not at all.  I think not at all.


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elizabeth1603" 
<elizabeth1603 at y...> wrote:
> MIchael, 
> 
> Rowling also makes a big deal about Harry's eyes' being green. In 
CoS, we 
> also find out that Dumbledore once had auburn hair (like Lily.) My 
wild 
> speculation is that Harry is descended from Dumbeldore on his 
mother's side 
> and is possibly related to Voldemort through her (Petunia got all 
the nasty 
> genes for their generation), and he is descended from McGonogal on 
his 
> father's side. I have nothing to back that part up, except for a 
gut feeling and 
> the fact that McGonogal was at the Dursleys, waiting for Harry and 
> Dumbledore at the beginning of PS/SS and the fact that she really 
is 
> concerned about Harry, it seems, more than a teacher would be.
> 
> "Elizabeth 1603"