[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's love

[Alexandra Y. Kwan]

No: HPFGUIDX 18472

Hello,

> 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.

Oh, I see definite potential in such a scenario.

> 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.

Snape fell for James and it was enough to push him back to the "Light Side,"
but when James picked Lily instead... <g>.

Or at least many hp-slashers seem to think.  Could be Lily whom he fell for
and that's why Snape hates Harry.

> 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?

Draco is a seeker, like Harry <g>.  What I want to know is, where was the
old seeker to the Slytherin team, then?  Or was there one?  I really don't
think Draco can stay on if he isn't at least adequate.  Not spectacularly
good as Harry, but good.

little Alex