It really annoys me (but not me )

[Cyril A Fernandes]

No: HPFGUIDX 163879

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...> 
wrote:

Cyril here:

> Jeremiah LaFleur" <hpfreakazoid@> wrote:
> 
> > Ok,I gues you're counting Petunia and Vernon. Not Dudly.
> 
> No, I'm counting Petunia and Dudley, Vernon doesn't enter into it.
> 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 and JKR
> is still a genius of the first magnitude. In the really important
> stuff JKR got it right.   
> 
> eggplant
>

Cyril - 

True - Petunia and Dudley would be the only true "blood" relatives of 
Harry. There is no one else in the world that would share in the 
complete bloodline of his mother except these two. Any other relatives 
would have commonality in the bloodline from either Lily's mother and 
Father, but not both.

So for the purpose of the Blood Protection which was due to Lily's 
self sacrifice, even either her own Mother and Father (ie Lily's) 
probably would not provide the same protection as Petunia would, as 
each would not have the genetic material in the blood that the other 
provided.

Just my thought.

On the topic at larg, sure there are inconsistencies in the small 
things of the story, but I do not seem at all bothered by most of 
them, and in fact woudl not notice most if I was not on this group. So 
while I do agree that there are some inconsistencies, I do not see 
that it takes away from the story that JKR is telling us.

Cyril.