a reason why lily didn't have to die..........

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 82394

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lynnfaragher78" 
<jamielynncarlson at h...> wrote:
> is it possible that Lily may have been LV half sister?.......his 
> father may have had another child later on........has this been 
said 
> before? let me know.........
> 
> lynn

While theoretically possible, given the issue of time manipulation in 
the Potter series, it is very unlikely.  Voldemort was apparently 
born in the late 1920's, and killed his father while still a young 
man.  Harry was born in 1980, and is mother was in her early twenties 
at the oldest.  (You can consult the time-lines available at various 
Internet sites for more "exact" dates and ages.)  So, Lily was born 
when Tom Riddle the elder had been dead for quite a few years.

If there is a blood relationship between Lily and Voldemort, canon 
certainly leaves ample opportunity for such, since so little is given 
regarding Harry's ancestry.  However, Lily's being Voldemort's half-
sister isn't one of them.  It would be more plausible for her to be 
Voldemort's daughter or grand-daughter, and I don't give either of 
those options a great deal of weight, again thanks to the lack of 
support in canon.  Such speculations are purely that, speculation 
without extant support in canon.

Richard