[HPforGrownups] Harry & Hermione Siblings?

[Penny Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 53370

Hi --

theultimatesen wrote:

<<<<<<I have read on a few sites that this is a possibility. I can't find 
those pages right now. I'll have to look in my browser's history. 
Anyhow, several pages are pointing to this. A few examples: Harry & 
Hermione's hair are both "unruley", the way McGonagall speaks to 
Harry when she tells him Hermione has been petrified in COS to name 2 
off the top of my head. It was stated on one of these pages (that I'm 
trying at the moment to find) that Lily & James possibly sent 
Hermione to live with the Grangers (maybe not muggles? Hermione seems 
to know too much about about the wizarding world to be muggleborn 
with muggle parents) to "spread out" their children. (I know this is 
not sounding legible, but it's been on my mind for awhile. I need to 
find these pages) I know it sounds *too* Star Wars to be possible, 
some of the things I have read just seems to plant that seed of 
possibility into my mind. I'm sorry if this has already been 
discussed, but I'm new to this board and I wasn't able to find a 
thread pertaining to this.>>>>>>>>>>

Well, Dumbledore does say that the Dursleys are Harry's only living relatives.  That's the first point against this argument.  

But, let's say you don't trust Dumbledore.  How does Hermione's birthdate (Sept 19th ......either 1979 or 1980) play into this scenario?  Keep in mind that Harry was born 31 July 1980.   You'd have to assume that Hermione was born in Sept 1979, and that Lily was pregnant again scarcely 6 weeks later.  Not impossible........but ......er.........not all that likely really.  And, if Lily was willing to die to protect Harry, I have a hard time believing she'd send another child away to live with another family.

Many ages ago, a member suggested that perhaps Harry and Hermione were cousins.  I debunked that theory genealogically in the following messages:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/4599

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/4667

Penny
(ever the genealogist.........)

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