[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily's physical description, and a bit more apparently :-)

[theotokos]

No: HPFGUIDX 125798

> 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 a descendant, 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 it 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.

 
Theotokos again:
Okay, Hannah, I can go there with you.  Just because Harry is not a descendent of Slytherin, doesn't mean he can't be somehow connected to LV in another way.  In answering that rumor, JKR never said "NO NO NO there is no relation between Harry and LV" --she merely states that James is for sure Harry's father and Harry is not a descendant of SalSly.  If there was no relation she may have been sure to squash the rumor right then.  I am liking this theory more and more.  Now--anyone out there want to point out something obvious that we've overlooked?
 
Theotokos



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