It really annoys me - Relatives

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 163825

---eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> wrote:
>
> Jeremiah LaFleur" <hpfreakazoid@> wrote:
>
> > Ok,I gues you're counting Petunia and Vernon. Not 
> > Dudley.

> eggplant:
> 
> No, I'm counting Petunia and Dudley, Vernon doesn't 
> enter into it.

bboyminn:

I don't understand the whole 'only living relative'
controversy. I think what we logically should read is
'only /significant/ living relative'. 

I'm sure I have a 12th cousin somewhere but the path
back to our common ancestor is probably pretty
convoluted. On one hand I can trace relatives back 
through my father's side to one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independance. Yet, no member of my
direct line of acendants has live in the USA outside
the 20th Century. 

> Eggplant continues:
> Think about it, you have 2 parents 4 grandparents and
> 8 great great grand parents; after a thousand years 
> and 40 generations the number becomes huge. HUGE! 
> That's why you're almost certainly related to the
> Emperor Charlemagne; but as I said before I'm just
> nitpicking...

bboyminn:

We have Petunia who is Lily's sister on hand, and
alternately we can try to track down Harry's 12th 
cousin somewhere, but would that obscure cousin even
no or care who Harry was? I don't think so. There is
a point where the /blood/ becomes so thin as to be
irrelevant, especially when a direct aunt is available. 

So after all that blathering, what I am saying is that
technically Harry probably has other blood relatives, 
but that 'blood' is too thin to be significant. The 
relationship is too distant to matter. 

So, yes, Harry has many blood relatives, but the degree
of 'blood' relationship it too insignificant to matter. 

For what it's worth, though I'm sure not much.

Steve/bboyminn