Alice & the Potter Family

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 112912

> 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."

DuffyPoo:
"I've come to bring Harry to his aunt and uncle.  They're the *only family* he has left now." (PS)  You are right, he IS only safe at the Dursleys because of Petunia (his mother's blood).  What I was saying is, if Petunia was not in the picture, and Alice was James' sister, the blood protection could have worked the same.  This charm of DD's isn't contingent on Lily's sacrifice, only the fact that the same blood runs through their veins.  If both Alice and Petunia were sisters of James and Lily, DD would have had to have made a choice in placing Harry.  He did not have the choice to make because Petunia and Vernon are Harry's only family.

Hickengruendler:
"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."

DuffyPoo:
If this were the case, Alice and Frank were still alive at the time of James and Lily's death.  Dumbledore could have placed Harry with them.  He did not, because  the Dursleys are Harry's only living relatives.  JMO

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