Snape's love

[Paul W. Hanbury, Jr.]

No: HPFGUIDX 18457

Catherine wrote:
> I think you are right in that there is something about Snape - and 
> that he is going to surprise us.  

When I read this, my brain rushed immediatley to the movie "There's 
Something About Mary".  If Snape plays Mary's role, who is the Brett 
Favre of the wizarding world?  Viktor Krum?  Or, perhaps more to his 
own generation, Ludo Bagman?

But, I am a shipper of no sort, so I am sorry that I brought it up.  
Especially considering that Snape is not nearly as popular as Mary 
was (at school, not in this group), I'll digress...

Catherine continued:
> However, I am not sure, although I 
> agree that it is likely, that it is wholly to do with some kind of 
> love interest which has gone wrong etc.  I think that the way he is 
> stems from some time earlier than this.  

Perhaps the love (or lack of love) in his past is not or a romantic 
type, but of the sort between a parent and child.  I wonder if 
Snape's father was much like Barty Crouch, Sr.--a stickler to the 
rules who spent little time with his son.  Like Barty Crouch, Jr., 
this sort of relationship pushed him toward the "dark side" and the 
Death Eaters, but something happened in his life (or being) that, 
unlike BC Jr., made him rethink his choices.  

Maybe there was a romance in his life after all.  This could possibly 
be why he turned out so different from BC Jr.  This relationship 
would have been long enough that he left the DEs for it and that when 
it ended he was scorned and bitter.

If I had I point, I think that I refuted it enough to make me wonder 
on which side of the "Snape love fence" I stand.   Hmmm...

Catherine also wrote:
> I have been intrigued by the reports of Snape as a student.  
> Turning up at Hogwarts knowing more curses/hexes/dark arts than any 
> 6th year students I find particularly interesting.  Where did he 
> learn this from?  Who are his parents?  What kind of background 
> does he come from?  

Did he spens some time attending Durmstrang?  Did he know Karkaroff 
before he becam a death eater?  Is there any cannon evidence that 
specifies otherwise?

Catherine went on saying:
> The Marauders make him out to be a very unpopular character, 
> so in this he differs from Draco, who is at least popular with his 
> own housemates.   This may be the Marauders' POV.  

Perhaps he was very much like Draco is, only without the wealth and 
family influence.  For example, would Draco have been chaser for 
Slytherin had his father not provided the funds for new brooms?  How 
else does Lucius provide money to Slytherin, keeping Draco in his 
housemates' favor?