These two things stand out

[karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 169924

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at ...> 
wrote:
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:19 AM
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> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: These two things stand out
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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Debi" <dobbycat@> wrote:
>  
> > Is it possible that Lilly was adopted by the Evans, and that she 
is
> related
> > to Godric Gryffindor in some way? Which would make Harry a
> descendant of
> > Godric Gryffindor as Voldemort is a descendant of Salizar
> Slitherin? And is
> > this why the Potter's were living in Godrics Hollow? Family land 
in
> some
> > way?
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> Sherry now:
> JKR answered this on her web site quite a while ago, I think.  She 
says
> Harry is definitely not the heir of Gryffindor.  There are a number 
of
> people who speculate that Dumbledore could have been, and that the 
house in
> Godric's Hollow could have been his house.  I don't really think 
one way or
> the other about it.  I hope we'll see Godric's Hollow for the 
sentimental
> value of Harry revisiting it, but I don't really expect any major 
plot
> revelations.
> 
> As for lily being adopted, if that were the case, than everything 
Dumbledore
> said or thought about the blood magic, Harry being protected as 
long as he
> can still call the home the place where his mother's blood lives, 
would be a
> lie or foolish ignorance.  I already have serious problems with the 
whole
> idea of Harry being left at the Dursleys, and if it turned out that 
it had
> been unnecessary all along because Lily wasn't blood kin to 
Petunia, that
> would make Dumbledore pretty monstrous, I think.  if he knew, of 
course.
> 
> Sherry

Karen:
I'm thinking Lily and Petunia are cousins or distant relatives and 
that Petunia's family adopted Lily.  That way there is still the 
blood protection.  I do not think they're sisters though.
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