Harry and Hermione being siblings...

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No: HPFGUIDX 53594

Kary:
What about Harry and Hermione as half siblings?  Isn't there hints 
somewhere in canon (besides Snape - which I wouldn't give a lot of 
credence to considering the biased bitterness of the source) that 
James was not always the perfect angel?  Maybe he fathered Hermione a 
little before Harry.  We don't know how long Lily and James  were 
married before Harried was begat? (Did I use that word in correct 
tense?)  If that happened and Hermione's mother dies she still could 
have been raised a muggle by being adopted by the Grangers and all 
the previous ideas would still work.  Maybe he was married before 
too?  We know very little of his and Lily's life, don't we?  I only 
consider this because my husband's adopted and we met his birth 
mother and father last year and his half sisters.  

me:
I don't think JKR would go the route if infedelity personally. 
Granted, she has gathered a huge fan base, a lot of it is still kids. 
I really don't think she would introduce a topic like that into it. 


Now, I have done my homework. Lily & James were born in 1960. This 
puts them at Hogwarts in '71. They'd be finished in 78. Considering 
Harry & all are born in 80, (for example Harry due in July) would 
have been conceived about Oct 79. (I'm using lexicon's timeline here) 
Now... We know Hermione's born in Oct. If she is in fact Harry's 
sister, this would be consistent (no overlapping) because we know it 
is possible to get pregnant again even a few weeks after delivery. 
Consider all these siblings 9 months apart IRL. We don't know 
anyone's due dates, but coming early is always a possibility. Yet, 
we're assuming all of this in human gestation. If the WW life span is 
much longer, why couldn't gestation be different too? 

Calliope wrote (message 53523);
Now that "would" be interesting, wouldn't it? So what that they don't 
have the same birthday. One or the other of their birthdates could be 
fudged (I say Hermione's.) 
I think, though, that if they were twins, Hermione would have been 
hidden at birth, not at the time of Voldemort's defeat. Especially if 
there were a prophecy that James Potter's child would defeat 
Voldemort...they'd want them separated as much as possible.

me:
You know, we don't know if Hermione had been hidden at birth or even 
THAT DAY. Maybe they had just done that and were placing Harry the 
next? What if that prophecy said the male child would survive but the 
female wouldn't? Maybe in the very end, they've both got to be alive 
& well in order to defeat him for good?

Fred:
This way, if you are looking for twins born on July 31 and only find 
one 
child, who would think of looking for another child born Sept. 19?

Me: 
It doesn't take much to find records at courthouses as long as you've 
got the birthday/name. I think they could have messed w/ Hermione's 
bday because otherwise she would've been an easy target.

penny:
So, let me get this straight, you think that even though Rowling has 
confirmed a birthdate of Sept 19th for Hermione and July 31st for 
Harry, she's lying to her fans?

me:
I don't think she's lying to her fans. She's got to with hold SOME 
information. She may even have to change some things around as the 
story progresses.

melissa:
Hmmm did anyone every figure out what color hair Molly has? 

me:
I thought it was clearly stated as Red.

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