[HPforGrownups] Re: Heir of Slytherin ... or NOT???

[Becky Walkden]

No: HPFGUIDX 58122


--- Andrea <ra_1013 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Becky Walkden wrote:
> > I think so too.  You can't compare them to muggle
> geneologies.  Another 
> > example, unless I'm mistaken. I am too lazy to
> verify this) is that 
> > with the death of Barty Crouch, another old
> wizarding family line died 
> > out.  Huggs Becky
> 
> I'm confused about why everyone says this.  Was
> there some reference
> to Barty as the last of his line I missed?  Yes,
> Bart Sr. and Jr. have
> both died, but that doesn't make them the end of
> their family line. 
> Do we know that Bart Sr. was an only child?  He
> could have five
> brothers all out merrily producing more Crouches to
> carry on the
> family tradition.  Or he could have had a slew of
> cousins, even if he
> was an only child.  Just because the father and son
> die off doesn't
> mean that they're the last of the line.  You have to
> go quite a bit
> farther back for that.
> Andrea
> 
>ME:  Yes.  I do not know where it is on the top of my
tongue but I definitely remember some line about that
being the end of the Crouch line.  it was in reference
that being from an old wizzarding family line does not
in any way make you better or superior.  But in our
"real-world" society that probably doesn't make sense.
 In fact,  you don't have to go back too many
generations to find out that just about everybody is
related to everybody on this planet.  But apparently
wizzarding family lines are not all that broad. It
goes back to what was already mentioned.  Ron's
comment that if we didn't marry muggles we would have
died out a long time ago.  Also, of course there COULD
be some diffenerence between a specific line and the
more wholistic or extended family here.  A line within
a family could die off but I don't think Ms. Rowling
wants to make it that complicated!  Not everything in
this fabulous storyline stands real close logical
scrutiny and needs just to be accepted on faith!
The other thing is, I don't believe for a momment that
Lilly is related to Lord Voldemort. And I do believe
this is the classic good-evil family feud story and
with all the twists and turns our beloved author may
throw at us, I don't believe she'll deviate from that.
 It comes down to the Heir of Griffinder vs the Heir
of Slytherine, Harry and Tom.  
Huggs Becky
 

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