[HPforGrownups] Re: Other relatives of Harry Potter!?

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 157471

Michelle:

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.


Lynda:

JKR has always confirmed that indeed all of Harry's family, other than the
Dursley's are dead.  That allowed Harry to be put into a situation in which
he was raised by people who treated him differently than they would someone
they cared about, which is a terrible way to be brought up, but it gave
Harry a separateness, a reliance on self that has stood him in good stead at
times.

Lynda


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