James & Snape: Related?

[tookishgirl_111]

No: HPFGUIDX 110113

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Maren Gest" 
<mietoesarepink at c...> wrote:
> Well that's definitely an interesting theory.  It's rather 
convincing as well;
> however, if Snape and James were brothers, why don't they have the 
same last
> name? All the Weasley brothers have the same name.  Perhaps James 
and Snape
> are related, but I'd say their last names would rule out brothers.
> 
> Maren

This is a great theory, and talk about coincidence...my friends and 
I just discussed this possibility last night.  It explains the 
instant hatred they have towards one another and the "it's more the 
fact that he exsists" comment.  Were Snape to be the illegimate son 
of James's mother from an affair with Snape's father (we got a 
glimpse of what was most likely Snape's father in book 5 and looks 
nothing like James so it's unlikely he's also James's father) than 
it would explain a number of other things as well.  It would explain 
the different last names, the general difference in appearance, and 
possibly why Snape continuely claims that James was arrogant and 
would "strut" about the castle (it wasn't just because he was good 
at Qudditch; it was because he was favored over Snape by his mother -
 he was not the one born out of an affair). 

Tooks - who thinks this idea clever and not at all impossible