Alice & the Potter Family

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 112941

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

Hickengruendler again:

"Your mother's sacrifice made the bond of blood the strongest shield 
I can give you." (OOTP, "The Lost Prophecy"). I really think this 
means, that it is Lily's blood that keeps Harry save, and has nothing 
to do with James. But anyway, I agree with you that Alice is not 
James' sister, because a) Harry should know by now, and b) McGonagall 
would knew that Dumbledore lied, when he said that the Dursleys are 
his only relatives.
 
> 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
 
Hickengruendler:
Not, if Alice and Frank are only very distant relatives. Even 
assuming, that James' blood also would keep Harry save (and like I 
said, I don't think that's true), if Alice were just James' cousin, 
than she's a way more distant relative to Harry than Petunia or even 
Dudley is, and it would still make sense, that Dumbledore gives Harry 
to the Dursleys. Don't forget, according to OotP, all the Pureblood 
families are related.