Tracing ancestry (was: Naughty, Guilty! DD)

[cubfanbudwoman]

Anne:
> So you don't like my idea then, that the main Slytherin line passed
> something down through the generations that nobody else knows about?

SSSusan:
Oh, no.  I liked that part of your post quite a bit. (Note the 
reference, earlier, to all the "juicy bits" in it. :-))  Still 
thinking about how I feel about the notion that DD is the 
possesser/carrier of it that Slytherin artifact, as you suggest.

 
Anne:
> P.S. Sure, the McMillans might only count back nine generations
> becasuse in the tenth they hit Muggle, but the principle's still the
> same -- the 900s are a *long* way back.

SSSusan:
Yup, you're right.  I just didn't understand Hermione's contention 
(if I understood it correctly) that it's be HARDER for wizarding folk 
to trace their ancestry than for muggles to do so.  That may not have 
been what she meant at all, but if it was, I don't get it.

Siriusly Snapey Susan, also congratulating CV for her perseverence.