Alice & the Potter Family

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 112807

> Tonks:
snip
 Therefore if Alice was a 
> Potter, Harry would have had some other blood relative that he 
could 
> have gone with besides Petunia. But Petunia was the only one left. 
> So the Alice Potter idea is out too.
> 

Potioncat:
"But the blood connection was with Lily and her family, not with 
James.  So I don't think it's ruled out.  But I would have expected 
Gram to say something at St. Mungo's, about the boys being cousins.  
Or about Harry being related to Alice."

DuffyPoo:
IMO (for what it's worth) the blood connection charm that DD used was with Lily/Petunia because she was the only living relative HP had.  If Alice were James' sister, there would have been a choice for DD to place HP.  There was not.

Also, IMO, there are two protection charms at work in HP's life (until the end of GoF when there remains only one).  The sacrificial charm of Lily dying to save HP, and the blood protection charm (which, IMO is not the same thing and not connected to the first) that DD uses so that HP is protected as long as he can call the place home where his mother's blood dwells.  If James had had a relative living, instead of L:ily, I believe the charm DD placed could have worked equally well, because it wasn't based on Lily's sacrifice but on blood.  The second charm is still in effect because HP is still, or can still, live at the Dursleys.  JMO

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