Alice Longbottom and the Potters

[Matt]

No: HPFGUIDX 113225

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "littleleahstill" 
<cmjohnstone at h...> wrote:
Karen wrote:
>>>
>>> Neville is a full-blood so Alice Evans doesn't work. But 
>>> I really like the idea of Alice Potter. I think this 
>>> weaves very well in the tapestry of JKRs writing.

Tonks replied:
>>
>> The Potters died a least a week or so before the 
>> Longbottoms ended up in St. Mungo's. Harry was taken to 
>> Petunia's house within 24 hours of the death of Lily and 
>> James. 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.

Leah suggested:
> 
> Harry has to be in the place where 'his mother's blood 
> dwells', so if Alice is a Potter not an Evans, she would 
> not have any of Lily's blood and  would not have been any 
> use to him.

That's fine as far as Dumbledore's charm itself goes, but it's hard 
to see how the theory could be reconciled with other statements that 
the Dursleys are Harry's only living relatives.

Starting with PS/SS, ch. 1:
Dumbledore: "I've come to bring Harry to his aunt and uncle. They're 
the only family he has left now."

ch. 2:
(Harry, musing): "When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and 
dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had 
never happened; the Dursleys were his only family."

ch. 3:
(Harry's thoughts, upon receiving the Hogwarts letter): "No one, 
ever, in his whole life, had written to him. Who would? He had no 
friends, no other relatives."

PA, ch. 1:
(Narrator): "Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and their son, Dudley, were 
Harry's only living relatives."

GF, ch. 1:
(Narrator): "Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley were Harry's only 
living relatives. They were Muggles who hated and despised magic in 
any form, which meant that Harry was about as welcome in their
house as dry rot."

Unless you disbelieve all of those statements, Alice is not related 
to Harry.

-- Matt