Potter Family
facts
- The Potter family had wealth.
speculation
- What happened to that wealth? Is the vault we see Harry use truly all that remains of it? Is that really a lot of money, or is that merely the perception of a boy who has never had anything, and a family who is notoriously poor? The above page on wealth goes into some depth on this.
- While Mrs. Rowling posted a graphical family tree on the Pottermore website1 for a while, I am assuming it is incomplete. There are two things of note.
- She has referenced Potters not mentioned in it as part of other articles. I believe she was attempting to represent only direct ancestors of Harry and his family. Aunts and uncles may have existed at any level of the tree, but are not shown.
- She uses two different colored lines, and we know that Iolanthe was the granddauter of Ignotus, not his daugter as a litteral reading of the graphic would indicate. Thus I believe that the places that we see the lighter coloured line, as we do between the two of them, indicates that more than one generation is passing between the names shown.
Footnotes
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I cannot find the original, not even in the Internet Archive but here is an archived copy. ↩
