The Whole Evans Theory
Steve
bboy_mn at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 15 08:57:19 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 85074
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, nymphadoraotonks at a... wrote:
> Hello bboy_mn at y...,
>
> In reference to your comment:
>
> è But, from a practical point of view, what are the actual
> è chances that there is not another living person on the
> è face of the earth who has not even so much as a single
> è drop of Potter or Evans blood in them?
> Tonks:
>
> I do not deny the possibility of a distant relative. But still, if
> Petunia is Harry's 'ONLY' relative... doesn't this make for
> something interesting?
> -Tonks
bboy_mn:
Ok, we can approach it from that direction too.
If the Potter and Evans family tree has been wiped from the face of
the earth then we do with out a doubt have an interesting situation;
interesting and very curious. If the ancestry is truly that bleak,
then I would hope that at some point JKR would explain how it could be so.
Of course, 'wiped from the face of the earth' is a little
melodramatic. It is possible that if the Evans and Potters typically
had very small families, had predominantly female off-springs, and
that certain old bachelors in the family failed to procreate; we
indeed have a set of circumstances where both the Evans and Potter
family trees could be very small. There could be a variety of
circumstance through which many of the branches of the family tree
'dead ended' without off-springs, like death from war, plague, etc...
and it is with in the realm of very slim possibility that the Dursley
truly are all that is left.
But I still say that for all those circumstances to come together
would be next to impossible.
We need that next book!
bboy_mn
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