[HPforGrownups] Re: Only Lving Relative...

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 82983

In a message dated 10/14/2003 10:08:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
artcase at yahoo.com writes:
That would be like saying there are no decendants of Henry the Eighth.


Sherrie, the Obnoxious But Adorable History Buff, has to chime in here:

There aren't.  All Henry's (known) children - "Bloody" Mary Tudor, Lizzie I, 
Edward Tudor & Edward Fitzroy - died without issue, so there are no direct 
descendants of Henry VIII.  There are collateral descendants - the current royal 
family is, if my memory serves, descended through Henry's sister Margaret - 
but the direct line has died out.

As to how Voldie could be Sally Sly's last descendant - Wizarding families in 
general (Weasleys excluded) seem to be very small.  If Ms Marvolo-Riddle was 
the only child of the only child of the only child (& so on ad nauseum), then 
her only child (being one snot-nosed Tom Riddle, Jr.) would be the last of his 
line, until/unless he himself chose to breed.  Just as Sirius was the last of 
the direct line of the Blacks.

Sherrie


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