RE Snape and Petunia

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 155679

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "katssirius" <katbofaye at ...> wrote:
>
> First Snape and Lily cannot be distant cousins.  Dumbledore makes it 
> very clear that Harry only has three blood relatives:  Petunia, Dudley, 
> and now the new improved Voldemort.  To be fair Dumbledore does not 
> make that last one clear.
> 
colebiancardi:

of course, I have no canon to support this whatsoever.  However, the
key word is blood relatives - Not all of your relatives are related to
you by blood.  My uncle is not blood related to me, he married my
mother's sister.  And you can have stepcousins ;)

I do think the Muggle connection is important; whether it is that they
are related in some way, or that their families knew one another in
social way.  We don't know the backstory of the Evan's or Snape's
families - and we may never know, as JKR probably won't tell us the
full story anyway.

sorry if I threw this thread off topic.

colebiancardi....