Potters WAS CHAPTER DISCUSSION chapter 6

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86169

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, KT Waters <eu_amo_tu at y...> wrote:
> Carol: 
> 
> "Again, maybe the connection to both the Potters and the Snapes is
> through Sirius's mother's line, which wouldn't show up on a chart
> showing only the "Noble and Most Ancient House of Black"--his father's
> side of the family."
> 
> 
> I don't know whether this is true or not. I mean we don't know
anything about James's family really, except that both his parents are
dead.
> 
> I know this because, Harry was born when Lily and James were about
20 or something, and then they died one year later. When Harry was
attacked (aka he got the scar) there were no living relatives except
the Dursleys. This means Jameses parents are dead obviously. It also
means they died within 6 years of each other, because Sirius quotes
that when he ran away in his last year at Hogwarts, he stayed with Mr
and Mrs Potter. 
> 
> It isn't unusual for couples to die with 6 years of each other, but
i am thinking perhaps they could not have been that old. Okay, sothe
average couple has children at 30, that would only make the Potters 50
when they died. Why would the suddenly die? IMO i think they were
murdered by a Death Eater or Voldemort because they are Gryffindors
heirs, and then it was James and Lily and they were killed and now its
Harry and he will probably be killed too or he will kill Voldemort
because Voldemort is Slytherins heir and he is Gryffindor - remember
that Gryffindor and Slytherin couldnt live together either and Harry
and Voldemort can't.
> 
> Thanks, I welcome critisism.
> 
> Jadeau


Carol:
I agree that James's parents must have died during the interim between
his graduation from Hogwarts and his own death and that in all
probability (though there's no canonical evidence yet), they were
murdered by Death Eaters. (Maybe that was the great crime that made
Severus Snape repent. We just don't know.) I have no opinion on the
Gryffindor's heir theory, but the Godric's Hollow connection is
interesting.

However, my point was simply that if there is a connection between the
Snapes and/or Potters and the Blacks as intermarrying purebloods, it
could have been on Sirius's mother's side and therefore would not
appear on the Black family's ancestral chart, which traces his
father's line.

Carol