Odp: [HPforGrownups] Snape commentary

[Monika Zaboklicka]

No: HPFGUIDX 11127

>  I see four possibilities:
>
>1. Snape and Lily were both Muggle-borns.
>2. Petunia is either a squib or a "repressed" witch.
>3. Lily's mum married twice.
>4. Lily and Snape were beloved cousins.
>
>Number 3, : In this scenario, Lily's
>mum first married one Caligula Snape, an arch-Muggle who belonged
>to three whites-only country clubs and was a speechwriter for the Nixon
>administration (he coined that little remark about grabbing people by
>the such-and-such).  By this union came Petunia Snape (a Muggle)
>and a future Potions master named Severus.  Then Lily's mum came to
>her senses and divorced Caligula (she got custody of Petunia and Caligula
>got custody of Severus, who inherited his father's sensitivity and charm).
>Then she married a much nicer Muggle, and they had Lily.


I love this theory, especially the part about Severus's father ... it
explains a lot.
Anyway,
- would two Muggles call their son "Severus"? It sounds like a typically
magical name;
- I believe Snape was in Slytherin (though it's not clearly stated
anywhere), and I also have the impression that a 100% Muggle-borns are not
accepted there, only pure wizards like Malfoy or - at were least -
half-Muggles like Riddle.
But perhaps Severus's dad was a wizard who wanted to use his talent for
speech-writing? That's a sort of thing you can't do in wizarding world...

Monika Z.
(A fanatic Snape-fan)