First of all, I searched the forum, and couldn't find a topic to fit it in, but if there is, please feel free to close it.

Okay, I was reading books 6/7 for the gazillionth time, and I noticed something very odd. In HBP, in the Gaunt memory, Marvolo Gaunt shows Odgen a ring that has the "Peverell coat of arms" on it. Since Voldy is related to the Gaunts, he is also probably related to the Peverells. Then , in book 7, Harry sees the grave with Ignotus Peverell on it. Later, you find that Harry is Ignotus's decendent. If Harry and Voldy are decendents of the Peverell's, then they are distantly related, aren't they?

This is an interesting idea, I'm not going to say your thoughts wrong, but i don't think it could work like that. Harry and Voldemort aren't related because JK didn't want it like that. I could be wrong though, who knows.

They're very, very distantly related. But if you think about, everybody who's a witch or wizard is related. I mean, they all decended from the same people right? It's kind of like the whole Black Family Tree thing seen in the fifth book. You can tie many, many people to them, even the Weasleys.

So they're related. I think so anyway. But I don't think it means anything.

naa man not every wizard is related, cause theres all the muggle borns that came out of lines and line of muggle ancestors

i would say they are very distantly related as apparently are all pure blood wizards. As they are both decendants of the peverells. However that was such a long time ago and the two brothers which they respectable decend from are very different. Does this mean ?Harry is related to Salazar Slytherin ?

Yeah...if LV and Harry are related which i think they are then that would make harry a relative of SS. So...when they were going on about him being Slytherins heir they wern't far off!

Harry and Voldemort are definitely related. Since both are related to the Peverells, that makes them cousins many times removed. If the Peverells are Pureblood, then they were most likely related to Salazar Slytherin, making Harry very, very, very, very distantly related to him.

So, yeah, he could have been the heir of Slytherin, but he wasn't the Heir of Slytherin.

Just because Harry is related to Voldemort doesn't mean he is related to SS. Voldemort's great great great... Grandpa is a Peverell going up one side of the tree but going up the other it is SS. Because were talking about many many generations the chances that Peverell's are related to SS is a longshot and therefore the chances that SS is related to Harry is again a longshot.

Heya

This is a very interesting topic. I have also saw that when I read the books if they were related did dumbledore know about it. He is so smart he should have picked it up.

TMR

Hey

I have had this suspicion since I first read books seven, Deathly Hallows, when I read that part where Harry is in the graveyard at Godric’s Hollow and sees Ignotus Peverell’s grave. He figures out that he is a descendant of Him.

We know that Voldemort is a descendant of Gaunt who is the last remaining descendant of Peverell.

This means that Harry and Voldemort must be very far off related through the bloodline of Peverell.

DW

Harry and Voldemort are definitely related. Let’s not forget the invisibility cloak Harry’s dad left him. It’s one of the Hallows isn’t it supposed to pass from father to son? The same goes for the resurrection stone on Gaunt’s ring but the Peverell brother who had the stone didn’t live long enough to have children as he died of a broken heart(?) quickly after he realized how the stone worked. Could he have entrusted the stone to one of his other brothers? It makes sense if we consider how close the brothers were and if we take into account how quickly the brother with the Elder Wand was killed then we are led to think that the stone was left to the prudent-brother-with-the-Invisibility Cloak to keep for the next generations. That can only mean one thing; Harry and Voldemort are more closely related than one realizes at first. They are both descendants of the same Peverell brother! Dumbledore had surely picked up the relation. He had asked James to lend him the cloak in order to examine it and he concluded that it was an original Hallow. He must have made the connection immediately when he saw Gaunt’s ring.
Anyway, I think Harry and Voldie are two sides of the same coin. That’s why Harry has similar characteristics and powers to Voldermort.

Interesting topic!! I think that they are very very distantly related...


^Yep, that's true... because in one of the books, sirius mentions that all the pureblood families are related... and Harry's dad was a pureblood... And Voldys mom...

Hey

I have thought about it before but I just realized a few problems with my theory As Linux felicis pointed out above the second brother didn't have children because he died so young and his wife or girlfriend or whatever died a young death so he couldn't have passed it to his children and I assume his older brother died before him because he goes and boasts about it right away. So he couldn't have passed it to his older brother and I don't believe he passed it to his younger brother either because it says that Ignotus went and lived his life in hiding so he could beat death and I don't think he kept in touch with his brother. So that leaves us with a trail of the elder wand but no kids from the original owner, the owner of the resurrection ring dead to be wit h is beloved with no children left behind and no one to give the stone to, and the last brother who lived a peaceful life and passed the cloak down from generation to generation. So we know that Harry is related to the Peverell line but what of the Gaunt's? I doubt that Voldemort is related to the Peverell line because if one of Morvolo's ancestors found the stone and claimed it was there's Morvolo would have believed and relished another tie to a famous wizard like Salazar Slytherin so we may never know if Harry And Voldemort are related but I doubt it's through that connection because like others above me have said Most pure blood wizarding lines are related so there could be another connection but I don't believe that the ring was passed down from the second brother to the Gaunts .


This is a very interesting post and I want to see what others think.

I think that they are related, but very, very distantly. This being the case, doesn't that make you think about how they both seem to be powerful and skilled wizards?

I agree with all of you. Harry is related to Voldemort, but very distantly. i think the thing about harry being a horcrux, with the added connection of being blood relatives, with Lily's protection, with the big mistake Voldemort made of taking Harry's blood to come alive in the Goblet of Fire; all that makes the huge feat of Harry's (defeating Voldemort) is even huger because of all that. Wow. Jo Rowling is a real genius.

They are related but as already mentioned, distantly. Their family trees connect at the Peverell brothers. Since the pureblood families are so closely linked, it is very possible that they are related more recently than that. On the Black family tree, a Dorea Black is shown to marry Charlus Potter and an entry shows they had one son so it may be reasonable to assume the son to be James Potter thereby linking Harry to the Black family tree. On Voldemort's side, however, the information is lost so the only true link to Harry's family tree is at the Peverell brothers.
Harry's paternal grandmother was Sirius's great-aunt which means James and Sirius were great-cousins. Harry and Draco were great-great-cousins.

But as is mentioned in the books, the pure-blood families were so interbred that everyone seemed to be related to someone else.

Dumbledore said that Voldemort gave part of himself to Harry through the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. that is the reason why Harry can speak Parseltongue, and the reason why Harry was a final Horcrux. I agree with all of you that they are distantly related through the Peverell brothers. Harry and Voldemort are related but Harry was definitely stronger because of his ability to love, but yes, they were related distantly through the Gaunts.

They wouldn't necessarily be related through the Gaunts. They could both be descended from Ignotus Peverell with the Gaunts and the Slytherins on the one side and the Potters on the other side. The Guants would thus be descendants of both Peverell and Slytherin. Obviously, the family trees may have touched more often than that given Sirius' claim that all of the pure-blood families are related to each other.

Loads of people are at least distantly related.
Think back to Salazar Slytherin's time, and then think how far his family tree would branch of if it's gone on for hundred's of years. There's probably thousands of wizards that are related to Salazar Slytherin. So, in turn, it's not that bigger surprise that Harry is related to Voldy, seeing as thousands of wizards probably are too.
Well worked out though (: