Very good post! One comment on the notion that (with Tonks, for instance) if some of these characters had close relatives, we would have heard of it before now-- some people just aren't terribly family-oriented. My parents, for instance. We lived about an hour's drive from most of my relatives, but saw them only at weddings and funerals. We got on well enough with them, just didn't interact much. Likewise, spouses don't always go to functions together-- just because they aren't seen doesn't mean they can't exist. Kingsley could be married and his wife is unwilling to participate in the Order, or perhaps he shields her from direct involvement in the war.
As for Harry, it's certainly possible that he has more distant relatives, second cousins and the like. Not a sibling, though, not unless James got up to some hanky-panky with someone other than Lily before he died. (It would, though, be kind of interesting to postulate a cousin through Petunia. She *could* have gotten pregnant and given the child up for adoption before marrying Vernon...)
I have a lot of plots in my head that I've never gotten around to writing, and in one of them I'm guilty of giving Voldemort a daughter and granddaughter. I don't think handsome, charismatic Tom Riddle was above using sex as a means to get ahead, although any girl unlucky enough to end up pregnant by him would have had to go through exceptional means to keep him unaware of the pregnancy.
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Date: 2005-11-16 09:15 am (UTC)As for Harry, it's certainly possible that he has more distant relatives, second cousins and the like. Not a sibling, though, not unless James got up to some hanky-panky with someone other than Lily before he died. (It would, though, be kind of interesting to postulate a cousin through Petunia. She *could* have gotten pregnant and given the child up for adoption before marrying Vernon...)
I have a lot of plots in my head that I've never gotten around to writing, and in one of them I'm guilty of giving Voldemort a daughter and granddaughter. I don't think handsome, charismatic Tom Riddle was above using sex as a means to get ahead, although any girl unlucky enough to end up pregnant by him would have had to go through exceptional means to keep him unaware of the pregnancy.