Harry and the Half Brother Prince

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 103168

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "danielmorgan322"
<danielmorgan191 at h...> wrote:

> danielmorgan:
> 
> Maybe the half blood prince is Mark evans, he could be Harry's half 
> brother. Hence the half blood, as for the prince part...I'm still 
> working on that...

asain_lovr2:

For Harry and Mark to be half-brothers they would have to share a
common father or a common mother. Lily and James married right out of
School and died soon after. That doesn't leave much room for 5 years
younger half-brother to enter the picture. 

Unless... James is still alive, has taken his wife's maiden name to
cover his identity, re-married, and produced Mark. 

Wouldn't that be a kick in the head?

Flaws in the plan-

James is a wizard, and the Minister says no other wizards/witches live
in Little Whinging. Of course, the registry of wizard's homesteads
could be voluntary, and James failed to 'volunteer'. 

The book repeatedly says that both Harry's parents are dead.

How could James live in the vicinity of Privet Drive and never make
contact with Harry? He would have to be made of stone.

Doesn't a half-brother sort of invalidate the Dursley/Evans Blood
Protection theory?

As I have said many times before, if there is a family relationship
between Harry and Mark, it has to be VERY distant, or we have been
flat out lied to for 5 books. I say the absolute nearest common
ancestor they could have would be Grandparents, but in all likelihood,
Great or Great-Great Grandparents. 

Remember, that's not 'more likely' to be, but more likely to be the
nearest possible. In all likelihood, the relationship is more distant
than that.

Just a thought.

Steve/asian_lovr2