Alice & the Potter Family

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 112820

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cathy Drolet" <cldrolet at s...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> 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.
 
Hickengruendler:

I disagree. Dumbledore made it clear, that Harry is safe at the 
Dursleys because that's the place where his mother's blood dwells. It 
was Lily's sacrifice that saved them, and Dumbledore said, that 
because of this sacrifice Harry is safe at the Dursleys. That has 
nothing to do with James.

However, I am sure Alice is not James' sister. You would think, that 
somebody would have told Harry, that Neville is his cousin (and 
therefore a decent relative, who is alive) by now. Or that somebody 
would have told Harry, that his aunt is living in St. Mungo's 
Hospital.

On the other hand, I do think it is possible that they are distant 
relatives, the same way the Blacks and the Weasleys are. Sirius said, 
that all the pure-blood families are related, and yet he mentioned 
neither the Potters nor the Longbottoms as being related to the Black 
family (while he did mention the Weasleys, although they were not on 
the tapestry). Maybe the Potters and the Longbottoms were part of 
another "wizard family tree", which isn't closely related with the 
Weasley/Malfoy/Black side. The closest relationship between Alice and 
James I can see is, that they were cousins. In this case, Harry isn't 
that closely related to either Alice or Neville, that somebody should 
have told him by now. But it still were a close enough relatinship, 
that it would somehow matter to Harry.

Hickengruendler