A blood bond between Snape and Dumbledore? (was Re: Snape a relative?)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 144893

 
Lupinlore:
> Possible.  However, let me put forth another theory about Snape's 
> relatives.  Perhaps, just perhaps, he's related to Dumbledore.  JKR 
> has indicated that Dumbledore's family will be important, and also 
> has said that the family relationships of Hogwarts professors are 
> kept secret for security reasons.

Pippin:
Do you have a quote for the family relationships? I thought she said
it was "classified" whether any of the Hogwarts staff were married.

I don't think we have to get all Star Wars-y for Dumbledore to feel
guilty about Snape. Snape was injured, "wounded" is the word
Dumbledore uses, on Dumbledore's watch, and Dumbledore did
not see. And Dumbledore's cosmic punishment is to watch as 
Harry is mistreated and know that there is nothing he can do about
it.

Tough on Harry, but that's the trouble with cosmic punishment in 
JKR's world. It falls on the sons for the sins of their fathers whether
the sons are guilty or not. "Kreacher is what he has been made by 
wizards." "We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for 
too long, and we are now reaping our reward."

 Dumbledore does not go so far as to say, in fact he refuses
to say,  that the  innocent *deserve* to suffer so. But that is the 
world he lives in. However, Dumbledore also believes in a power "more 
wonderful and terrible than death, than human intelligence, 
than the forces of nature." The power that Harry has and 
Voldemort has not.

Whatever Snape's fate is, it will turn on the application of that
power, or Harry will fail.

Pippin