Cousins by marriage ?

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106433


>  From OotP, Chapter 6, "The Most Noble And Ancient House Of Black":
> 
> "'Molly and I are cousins by marriage and Arthur's something like my 
> second cousin once removed. But there's no point looking for them on 
> here - if ever a family was a bunch of blood traitors it's the 
> Weasleys.'"
 
Eris wrote :
> So Molly was the one who married into the Weasleys, obviously, since 
> she's a Prewett.  And Arthur was the blood relative (although I'm not 
> too clear on how this 'once removed' business works). 

Del replies :
I disagree. The way Sirius said it, just after explaining that all the
pureblood families are inter-related and that this means that the
choice of partner is very limited if your kids are to be pure-bloods
too, I take it to mean that *both* Molly and Arthur are blood
relatives to Sirius.

Thanks for the explanation about second cousins though !!

Del