Sirius' family/Severus

[Zarleycat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11873

> I agree with the assumption that both Sirius and Severus are pure-
bloods. Whether or not there is a direct blood relationship between 
them remains to be seen. (Second cousins twice removed?  Fraternal 
twins separated at birth??  How they'd both hate that idea!!) 

 However, now that we have witnessed their great antipathy to each 
other in both PoA and GoF, I would not be at all surprised if Rowling 
has set us up to witness an intriguing development of their 
relationship.  Here are 2 people who can barely stand to be in the 
same room with each other without going for each other's throat; yet 
now they are working to defeat the same enemy.  Perhaps at some point 
in the story one man will be in desperate need of help that only the 
other man can provide, which will give us lots of fodder for 
character assessment.