Harry's last 'living' relatives (was Re: The Mauraders' Generation)

[Megan]

No: HPFGUIDX 123771


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, 

"queen_astrofiammante"  wrote:
> (snipped stuff here...)
> ...And we are told again and again that Petunia is his only living
> relative.
>
> My mind keeps coming back to that confrontation in OotP between 
> Sirius and Molly Weasley, when they are arguing about who cares 
> most about Harry. The subtext to me is that these are two people 
> who are his blood relatives - on the Potter and Evans sides 
> respectively. I realise that doesn't fit with what we know - that 
> Harry has no blood relatives. But in a world where people are so
> closely interrelated, how can that actually be true? <snip>


skater314159 writes:
Well, I really like what you wrote here, because it fits into 
something I have been thinking about/theorising about lately:

JKR, being the "Queen of Mislead", I think wants us to really think 
about Petunia being Harry's only *living* relative. I agree with you 
that I think the families are all inter-related, and yes, I think 
Tom Riddle is somewhere in BOTH Sirius' & Harry's family tree(s).

The key word to me in all of this is of course - living... would a 
Vampyre or Zombie or UnDead person in the WW not qualify as one of 
Harry's "living" relatives then? I think so. 
I think we are supposed to think "ah, he doesn't have any relatives 
left" which is quite diffrent from "no *living* relatives". 
I also think the Death Eaters are undead or some shade of non-
living... but I don't know how that fits into all of this...

But that's just my opinion,
Skater314159

(This discussion of family trees reminds me of a tape one of my 
friends in college had  - 'You might be a redneck if your family 
tree is a bush'... how would that go in the WW? 'You might be a pure 
blood if your family tree is a shrub'? heheh)