[HpforGrownups] OOP: Siruius' big question no-one has asked before

[Pat and Jim Gruenke]

No: HPFGUIDX 64610

  Sueeeyqbong wrote:

> The phrase 'cousins by marriage' can refer either to 'Molly married
> someone who was my cousin' or 'I (ie Sirius) married someone who was
> Molly's cousin.' I don't think the former can be the case, since, if
> it were, Arthur wouldn't be Sirius' second cousin once removed, but
> his first cousin by marriage.
>
>
> So...is the latter the case? Was Sirius married once?
>
> Can anyone else think of any other interpretation for this sentence?


Pat wonders:

Here's my thought.  One of Sirius' parent's sibling's spouse's niece is 
Molly.  Clear as mud?  Let's say, his father's sister, "Aunt Em" married 
"Uncle Henry".  "Uncle Henry" isn't related to Sirius by blood.  "Uncle 
Henry's" sibling's child is Molly.  So, cousins by marriage??? 
 Complicated, yes, but in a small community with many inter-marriages, I 
think they would consider themselves "kissin' cousins."  It think we 
would have heard about Sirius being married.  

*whew*  Yes, my husband is from a small, "everybody is related to 
everyone else" town, so these kind of "cousins" are in Stearns County, 
at the very least!   Pat