Family Ties

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 121941


Tonks wrote:  
> Where I am going with this is maybe James' is related in some way 
to 
> Tom Riddle's mother. 

Meri now: Interesting theory, but unfortunately it is debunked in 
canon. In CoS, when we find out who Tom Riddle really is, he says 
something along the lines of the noble blood of Salazar Slytherin 
runs through his veins from his mother's family. And then Dumbledore 
confirms for Harry that LV is in fact the *last* descendent of 
Slytherin. (I know some editions, my own included, have that typoed 
as "ancestor" but I am pretty sure that this is a mistake.) You 
could argue the point that maybe DD was just waiting to tell Harry 
that he was related to LV at a later time, but whatever we can say 
about DD he never lies to Harry. And I am also pretty sure that JKR 
said that making Harry and LV distant cousins would be too "Star 
Wars" for her. 
Meri -