Other relatives of Harry Potter!?

[Monica Boukhalfa]

No: HPFGUIDX 157387


On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 6:54pm, lovingly_black wrote:
> 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.
>
> I don't know. If I was Harry I would be very interested in my own
> heritage. Maybe it's the lack of information on this that intrigues
> me. Sorry for any misspelling, it's never been a strong point of mine;
> hoping it does not reflect on my ability to still be intelligent. I
> would go back to my copy of SS but I've lent it out as I have done
> many times before trying to captivate my friends with the the tale of
> Harry Potter hoping they will not continue to see me as a nutter for
> I could never stop rereading these wonderfully entrancing novels.
>


I believe they covered all of this in one of the interviews with JKR.

Although I don't have the link on me it was something to the effect of
James being an only child and his parents died of natural causes. Jo
wanted it to be understood that 1) yes Harry DID have to live w/ the
Dursleys and 2) that he was all alone.

This is all part of the hero's quest, he loses those who guide him and
he has to face his task alone, foreshadowed in the first book while
getting through all of the barriers to get the stone.

So yeah. Sorry. Its Harry, just Harry!

Professor B.
Charms
Gryffindor.

--Monica M. Boukhalfa