LV showing mercy to Lily?

[dorapye]

No: HPFGUIDX 93585

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Jo Hill <jojobinks1983 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> I like the idea of "Uncle Voldie", Tom Riddle Snr as Lily and 
Petunia's father. I can picture Harry and Petunia having a blazing 
argument culminating in an Eastender's-esque "He's my brother!!!". 
This might also go some way towards redeeming the Dursley's. So far 
Voldemort has killed Petunia's father (maybe) and sister so no 
wonder they're all a bit cagey, they may feel as though they are 
next in line. I mean look how they reacted to Dudley's dementor 
attack.
> 
dorapye:
okay, re-emerging from lurkdom yet again, but have to blast some 
holes into your theory, as I've taken this disturbing little route 
myself in the past, but had to abandon it because it just won't fit 
with the timeline, sorry.

TR kills his father TR Snr and his grandparents when he is still a 
teenager; this we learn from the description of the Riddles' deaths 
some fifty years prior to GoF.

This means, for TR Snr to have begun a second family after his ill-
fated liaison with Tom's mum, Petunia and Lily would have had to 
have been born (or at least conceived) before 'their father's' death 
in (circa) 1942-46. Lily, in canon, is in her final years of 
Hogwarts in 1970-71, so cannot have been conceived before about 1952-
53

Okay, let's play with your idea a little -is it possible that TR Snr 
did have a daughter with a Muggle wife, and this daughter grew up to 
marry an Evans and have 2 daughters....? Don't know if it would fit 
into the timeline, though think perhaps it might.  That would then 
make Voldy Lily's half-uncle (? correct me if I'm wrong).  

Nah, not seing Voldy bothered about this vague connection, not 
enough to spare Lily's life, certainly, and more likely to condemn 
her as his hated father's granddaughter. That is, supposing he even 
knows this much about her family heredity.

I fear this Lily-related-to-LV theory is leading us up a blind alley.

dorapye