Harry's last 'living' relatives?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 123895


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

Skater314159:
> I have to disagree with you here... I am a person who personally 
has 
> no living relatives...
> It isn't impossible if you are the only child of only children... 
> esp. if they had few living relatives. 
> You also need to think about cases in modern history where whole 
> families have been whiped out (the Shoah,the Nazi genocide of the 
> Sinti, the genocide in Rwanda, the 'ethnic-cleansing in the 
Balkans, 
> Pol Pot's genocide, etc.). 
> If Voldemort's last reign of terror is as bad as we hear in the 
> books, I think it could have been a sort of genocidal event for 
> Wizardkind.

Geoff:
I wonder if that's true if you go far enough back....

Last year, we had a series of programmes on BBC TV in which various 
well-known personalities followed their family tree back. One of the 
people involved discovered that he had a distant cousin and the 
family line had diverged in 1764!

I agree with a previous contributor that we probably tend to forget 
anything beyond second cousins, but even with a long line of only 
children of only children, you would expect that somewhere, there is 
a link, even if only tenuous.