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No: HPFGUIDX 110151

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "juli17ptf" <juli17 at a...> wrote:

> Oops. Correcting myself, I really meant that Snape would be related 
> to TR's mother's family. The Riddles were Muggles. We don't know 
the 
> family name of TR's mother, as I recall. Could it have been Snape?
> 
> Julie

I'm not sure this would fly, since that would make Snape a decendent 
of Salazar Slytherin, and Dumbledore already said that Riddle was the 
last.

Kristen