Descendents of the Peverells, WAS: Question: Cadmus Peverell & Voldermort

[Annette]

No: HPFGUIDX 174652

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at ...> wrote:
>
> Sonja:
> -
> > If Marvolo Gaunt is descended from Peverell that would make
> Voldemort and Harry
> > distant relatives!  Or maybe I'm confused!
> 
> Finwitch:
> 
> Well, yes. But Very distant - more than that of the Founders,
> considering that Founders are part of known history, if also faded 
to
> legend in part; Peverell brothers are MYTH, or even older: a fairy 
tale.
> 
> Estimation about 3000 years or so.
> 
> Finwitch
>
********** Then how come that Ignotus Peverell is buried in a 
Christian cemetery in the English West Country. He being the third 
brother, owner of the Invisible Cloak and ancestor of James  and 
Harry Potter. The cloak, handed down through generations, can't be 
older than Ignotus himself.

cariad