Harry and the Half Brother Prince

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 103169

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <asian_lovr2 at y...> 
wrote:

Steve/asian_lovr2:
> 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.
> 
> Just a thought.

Geoff:
In my post about Mark Evans last November in message 85255, I 
discussed at length the likelihood that he was a cousin with maybe 
two squibs for parents or a squib/Muggle combination which would 
explain the Ministry's view that there were no wizards in the Little 
Whinging area, young wizards probably not being noted until they 
reached Hogwarts age. I also argued that it could be possible for 
their relationship to be as close as second cousin without them being 
aware of the link, quoting from my own family experience.