Draco's Hand of Glory /Relatives

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183937

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
 
> I would agree that this would be the normal relationship. As an 
> example, when I was a kid, my grandmother had two surviving sisters. 
> I knew as a seven or eight year old that they were my great-aunts.

zanooda:

Thank you for the explanations, everyone :-). I am rather confused 
about all these relationships even in my own language, because there 
it's even more complicated than in English - we have different words 
for all your "in-laws". For example, my husband's brother and my 
sister's husband would be called differently, and I can never remember 
which one is which :-)! To return to HP - I know now that Walburga 
Black was Draco Malfoy's great-aunt, not his grandmother.


> Geoff wrote:

> Anyway, in the UK, the suffix "in-law" is only used in conjunction 
> with "sister' "brother', "son" or "daughter".


zanooda:

Carol says that my husband's grandmother is my grandmother-in-law. So 
there :-)!