Harry's last 'living' relatives?

[northsouth17]

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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.

northsouth17:
Just a thought on this subject - The WW did got hrough a war. If 
Moodys Original Order photograph is an indication, survival rates 
amongst some segments of the population were not particualrly good. 
People who fought Voldemort - or for Voldemort, for that matter - 
died off rather nastily in rather large amounts. I guess we can 
assume that a lot of the Potter family was involved, and that many of 
James's uncles and cousins may have died during the war. NOT to 
generally go there, but I have a very small extended family (I need 
to get to fourth cousins to rack up a dozen relatives) - as a lot of 
my grandparents siblings didn't make it past WW2, and it's been 
significantly longer since WW2 than since VoldyWar1. 

northsouth17