Lily's physical description, and a bit more apparently :-)

[Hannah]

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> Beth: 
> One thought  that keeps popping into my head is that since Lily's 
love saved  Harry, and that love was in Harry's blood protecting 
him,perhaps  LV also had some of the Evans/Potter blood in him thus 
> protecting  him from the rebound.  
> 
> Hannah now:  
> I like this theory.  Lily could be related to LV 
> through his Muggle father's side. 
>  
> theotokos replied:   I also like this theory on first read, but I 
was under the impression that JKR ruled out the possibility of LV 
being related to Harry.  At her website in the "Rumors" paper, in 
response to the question posted 18/02/04 "Voldemort is Harry's real 
father/grandfather/close relative of some description" she states:  
No, no, no, no, no. [snip] Just to clarify - this means that Harry 
is NOT a descendent of Salazar Slytherin.  If LV is a descendant and 
Harry cannot be doesn't that imply Harry and LV are not related?  
And if they are not related then LV and Lily cannot be related.  I 
thought she had said more clearly somewhere but cannot find where.

Hannah now:  You are right about this, Theotokos, but I still think 
my (well, Beth's) theory could stand.  JKR says he's not a 'close' 
relative.  Now, that kind of qualification by JKR immediately flags 
up to me the question 'oh, so he could still be a *distant* relation 
then.'  Or it may mean they're not related at all, of course, but I 
don't think it rules out a distant connection.

The Slytherin link also doesn't rule it out, as long as Lily and Tom 
are related via Tom's father.  The Slytherin blood is on Tom's 
mother's side.  So Harry could be distantly related to TR via his 
father's side without being any kind of Slytherin descendant.

Hannah