Harry's last 'living' relatives?
potioncat
willsonkmom at msn.com
Thu Feb 3 17:39:11 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 123832
Eggplant wrote:
Think about it, you have 2 parents 4 grandparents 8
> great-grandparents and so on, go back 15 or 20 generations, just a
few hundred years, and everybody is related to everybody. In the
small wizard community this would be even more true. Petunia may be
his closest relative but I don't care what Dumbledore says, Harry has
> other living relatives, mathematics demands it.
Potioncat:
Yeah, go back and you can lots of ancestors and relatives...most of
them dead. But at what point are you no longer related to the
living? Is my great-great-great-grandfather's great-great-great-
great niece still my cousin? At some point you no longer share blood
(DNA). And if you have a few generations of one child families it
could happen pretty quick.
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