[HPforGrownups] Other relatives of Harry Potter!?

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 157383

 
In a message dated 8/23/2006 8:56:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
lovingly_black at yahoo.com writes:

What I  don't understand is why hasn't anyone said anything about 
Harry's father  and or mother's family besides Aunt Petunia? Sirius 
said he used to spend  holidays with James and his family sometimes 
but we don't know any thing  about them. All his family on both sides 
are dead? Was James an only  child? We know Lily had a sister of 
course, but what of his grandparents?  (Not saying they're not dead.) 
But how did they die? Who were they? I keep  thinking of the Mirror of 
Erised. All those people staring back at  him.


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Sherrie here:
 
JKR has actually commented on this.  IIRC, she said that all Harry's  
grandparents are dead, that James' parents were quite elderly and had him late  in 
life (yes, an only child - seems to be rather prevalent in the WW).  She  also 
said that the grandparents (& their deaths) aren't important to the  story (so 
we probably won't find out anything more about them).
 
Sherrie


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