Harry and the Half Brother Prince

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 104520

- asian_lovr2 (Steve) wrote:
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> As I have said many times before, if there is a family relationship
> between Harry and Mark, it has to be VERY distant, or we have been
> flat out lied to for 5 books. I say the absolute nearest common
> ancestor they could have would be Grandparents, but in all likelihood,
> Great or Great-Great Grandparents. 
> 
> Remember, that's not 'more likely' to be, but more likely to be the
> nearest possible. In all likelihood, the relationship is more
distant than that.

Carol:
If Harry and Mark are, say, second cousins, it wouldn't be a matter of
having been lied to. It would simply be that Dumbledore is *not*
omniscient and didn't know about Mark because Mark's parents are
Muggles. (The fact that he lives in Little Whinging and has the same
last name as Petunia and Lily also suggests a not-too-distant
relationship--a shared great-grandfather who was a Squib, or whatever.)

OTOH, if Petunia turns out to be a witch, I'll say we've been "flat
out lied to." We hear in every single book, including chapter 1 of
SS/PS, which is not written from Harry's POV, that she's a Muggle. And
Mark's parents must be, too, since the MoM has no record of any witch
or wizard in Little Whinging. (They wouldn't know about Mark.)

Carol