A brother?

[pandrea100]

No: HPFGUIDX 103724

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "troublenbass" 
<Notyourpoet at b...> wrote:
> What if Harry had a sibling of some sort? 

Well ... his parents are pretty definitely dead, dead and buried.  So 
the sibling would have to be older.  And therefore people like 
Sirius, Dumbledore etc would know of its existence.  I find it 
unbelievable that they would know such a thing and not tell Harry.

Anyway, even if there was some way this could be possible, it doesn't 
make for a very good way of telling a story, just introducing a 
surprise! new sibling*.  I think in analysing the books we need to be 
careful to distinguish between what COULD be done if you split hairs 
and tweak facts and stretch for some outlandish 
coincidence/secret/lie and what SHOULD be done to make a good story.  
A lot of these far-reaching explanations just don't sound like great 
potential for fiction. 


*Then again, they did it in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but a lot of 
people hated it.

Pandrea