Family Ties

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 121944


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

Tonks:

You are right. I wasn't thinking. Just can't figure out how it is 
that Tom Riddle, James Potter and Harry all look so much alike. 
Harry and James, of course, because they are father and son. But 
Tom???

Tonks_op