Harry's Bood Relations (was Afterlife/Clue/Quirrell/, etc.)

[amis917]

No: HPFGUIDX 171443

houyhnhnm:
> 
> Dumbledore must have meant that the Dursleys were 
> Harry's only living relatives within some arbitrary 
> degree of kinship of which neither Harry nor the 
> reader was informed.
> 
> How could Harry possibly have no blood relations 
> within any degeree of kinship without the entire 
> WW being wiped out (and much of Muggle Britain as well)?
> 
> So what would be the WW definition of consanguinity?
> Everybody up to second cousin?  Third cousin?  One remove?
> Two removes?  Anyone care to speculate?


Amis917:
I think the idea is that the Dursleys are Harry's closest living 
relatives on his mother's side. In order for the protection to continue 
(or strengthen) from Lily's sacrifice, Harry had to be placed with one 
of Lily's relatives. I'm sure there were some distant relatives if you 
go back up Harry's family tree and down another branch. The protection 
wouldn't have worked the same though, I don't think. So, in the end - 
it doesn't really matter if he has some distant relatives, or not.

Amis917