I meant, why try to hide it, especially when one will have to go to extreme, not to mention possibly dangerous, lengths to keep the secret.

 

How about most of their close friends know, and just don't want to tell Harry? He's not exactly mentally sound ya know. The media wouldn't know because they were in hiding during the late months of the pregnancy ect ect ad infinitum.

It would be easier than contriving an entire plot around making Snape believably be Harry's true father -_-.

 

Yeah, and most of the circle of friends are all ... not in any condition to convey the information. AD would NEVER give away the information that could shake the faith the British Wizarding Sheep have in their image of a Hero.


Edited to add:
But the Blood Wards!
AD set them up because Petunia is Lily's sister. An aunt was the closest relative he could find. And I've come to believe in the existence of those Wards: Harry could easily have been THE most sought-after child in the Three Kingdoms before he broke cover and went to Hogwarts. Vengeful DE aside, the news reporters must have been after him like sharks tracing blood in the water.

 

You are failing to recognize the opportunities offered by fanfiction.net.

You see, the truth is that JAMES is Harry's mother. He carried him in his ass for 9 months. FF.net will undoubtedly have a story with 7000 reviews about this. There will probably be "male Veela" involved, too, so you get two for the price of one.

 

That idea actually gave me a twitch next to my eye.
Yuck.

 

What if Petunia was the surrogate mother? Maybe they were at the Evans house and James had a bit too much to drink and did the nasty with horse face. Maybe he had a thing for horses. What if he pulled an Abe Dumbledore and transfigured Petunia into a pony... Animagus... And he called her Mrs. Ed....

 

I'm going to hide under the bed, now.
I hope Lily killed him, and just made it look like it was Riddle's handiwork.

 

Somewhere, a fangirl just got an idea.

...

You asshole.

 

Now that is an idea, Lily killing James for what ever reason and making it look like Voldemort, no chosen one crap, and we could have a nice dark family. (Should 'chosen one' be one word?)

 

Hm. I'd give that a try.

The fic we're talking about, though? No.

No. Two words.

 

Maybe one grammatically incorrect word, since it's a title and it's always spoken as a unit: ChosenOne.
Looks impressive, doesn't it? AND this Brand New Addition to the English language is both efficient and difficult to type. "Harry Potter TheBoyWhoLived" See? Like that. The Prophet probably has a single die cast for that entry. God knows they use it enough.

 

If you use any variation of the "Lily isn't Harry's mother" than you are adding fuel to the fangirl fire. I can hear the fangirls screaming..OMG JAMES/EILEEN PRINCE.... They would twist it so Harry and Snape are really brothers.

 

Then we could get the fangirl spinoff with Draco/Harry/Snape 3some.

 

Don't even joke about shit like that. My stomach just rolled when I read that entry.

 

I seem to recall a rather disturbing Severitus fic a while back.
It was also a Snape/Harry.

uke:

 

Thank you for sharing. Really...............Thanks, bye-bye now.