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

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 123779


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Megan" <skater314159 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> --- 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>

Geoff:
this came up a number of times in the good old "Mark Evans" days and 
I wrote, on one occasion in message 85020:
 
"On the question of Petunia being the only living relative, we have 
looked at the possibility of folk further over on the family tree. I 
mentioned in a message some weeks ago on this very topic that I went 
to Yorkshire earlier this year to meet a distant cousin on my 
father's side of the family. I knew of her existence but never 
realised that she was a family member until after my father's death
ten years ago. Although I am related to her, if someone were to ask 
me to name my cousins etc., I think I would be inclined to forget to 
include her on the list. She is in fact a relative via my great-
grandparents... and don't ask me which cousin that makes her. Pass."

Do we only count "close" relatives?