[HPforGrownups] Snape and Sirius related? Was: Re: Half blood prince etymology

[Jocelyn Grunow]

No: HPFGUIDX 122239

On Tuesday, January 18, 2005, at 06:35 am, dumbledore11214 wrote:
> To me it doesn't seem to be enough that it's simply Sirius's house to
> cause Snape to blush like that. What if Snape was Sirius's half
> brother, and the elder one? (We now know that Snape's birthday is in
> January) If he was the elder, illegitimate child, Sirius mentioning
> that the house belongs to him could be a slap in the face to Snape if
> he could have been the first born son and entitled to any Black
> inheritence, such as the house.
>
> Call me crazy, but I think this makes some sense. Any thoughts?
>
If this half-brother theory were true, Snape could easily be the child 
of a previous marriage with a 'non-pureblood' woman.  The Blacks could 
have place some kind of entail on the property so that it could only go 
to pure-blood descendants.  He could have rejected the name or had it 
rejected for him in his childhood.

Anyone who reads gothic or regencies could come up with a plot along 
those lines without any trouble!  eg:

Very Young Daddy Black runs away with beautiful muggle Miss Snape and 
marries her.  Grandpa Black fetches him back, annuls the marriage & 
threatens Miss Snape with being changed into a frog if she tells anyone 
the truth.

Young Daddy Black marries beautiful muggle Miss Smith and divorces her 
six months later.  Thoroughly ashamed of his wife and child, he offers 
her a lumps sum if she never tells anyone the truth.  She remarries 
Bullying Mr Snape (who wants the lump sum) while her baby is small, so 
baby grows up as a Snape, but he finds out the truth during the 
Voldemort years.

I could go on - but I'll spare ya!

Jocelyn