Favorite Outlandish Theories

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 29764

Heather:"Among my pet theories:
 
Severus Snape is related to Harry Potter. I generally think this is 
through James Potter (all three are black-haired, fair-skinned, and 
have some natural talent for moving about silently), but it may in 
fact be through Lily."

Objection to this notion:

If Snape was related to Potter or Lily Evans, Sirius Black would know 
it, and mention it. He would have been less likely to play a 
potentially deadly trick on Snape as he did.

Heather:"It may be possible that Lily Potter is not dead in the 
strictest sense, but magically "indisposed" in some manner. 
Dumbledore may know this. It may have something to do with why Harry 
has to keep going back to the Dursleys on holiday. She may be a 
ghost."

JKR would have been breaking a major rule of writing: Don't lie to 
your readers. IOW, Dumbledore and everybody else has told us that 
Lily is dead, Voldemort has told us that, and we've seen her come out 
of V's wand along with others of his victims. We don't know that Lily 
isn't a ghost, true.