Snape, was Re: Class origins

[Heather Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 29488

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Margaret Dean <margdean at e...> wrote:
> lotusmoondragon at a... wrote:
>  
> > I think a more plausable theory is that Snape is half vampire
> > (even though in most vampire mythos, vampires can't breed).
> > Perhaps his father as a vampire, and he ran out on Snape and his
> > mom. It could be why he wants to be the DADA teacher so badly -
> > he could be very bitter towards his vampire father, and thus
> > be bitter towards all dark creatures.
> 
> Ooh!  Though I don't at all subscribe to the theory that Snape is
> a vampire, I did a =lot= of reading about vampire lore in my
> younger years, and in some of the more obscure legends, vampires
> do indeed sometimes crossbreed with humans.  The crossbreed is
> called a "dhampir" and possesses the innate ability to =detect=
> vampires.  Thus the offspring very often turns out to be the
> vampire parent's nemesis.  I could see Our Severus in that role,
> I really could.
> 
> Pippin wrote:
> 
> > I'd say that Snape is from the lower end of the scale, judging by 
> > the poor condition of his teeth and the way his polished manner 
> > of speech disappears when he's agitated.
> 
> It wouldn't surprise me to learn that Snape's background, as
> would befit his complex character, was decidedly "mixed."  I can
> see him being born into a large, rather chaotic family of
> wrong-side-of-the-tracks wizards, probably with Dark leanings --
> never getting much attention or affection and having to fight
> tooth and nail for what he did get.  Then perhaps, when he got
> old enough that his intellect would begin to show, he's picked
> out of the mob by an elderly male relative who is a bit more
> high-class -- a grandfather, uncle, great-uncle . . . dare one
> suggest a godfather? -- taken into his household and whipped into
> shape as a proper Dark Wizard, rather on the Malfoy model but
> more scholarly and austere.  Still not much real affection, but
> personal attention: Knowledge, Rule, Order, learn your lessons
> well, Severus, and one day you will be of the Wizard Elite that
> will Rule The World.
> 
> Then he comes to Hogwarts, and we know something of what happens
> next . . .  May have been a fierce battle of loyalties, at some
> point, between Grandpapa and Dumbledore.
> 
> 
> --Margaret Dean
>   <margdean at e...>  


 I Don't Write Fan-Fiction, But....

   one character writeup I've played with for possible use in FF and/or online roleplay (should I decide to return to the dark side ;>) is "La Serenissima" Vestali, an Italian-American teacher at SWI and ex-auror, who finished up her schooling at a Mediterranean school run by her great-great grandfather, Domenico Borgia. S and D are themselves on the side of the good, but have to always contend with the machiavellian Borgia Clan's extremely longstanding and richly-deserved Bad Reputation, dating back from their famously badass Renaissance ancestors through their Cosa Nostra-esque magickal Mob connections and their involvement with the muggle fascists of WWII.  Rather similar to your proposed Snape clan! 



(PS... Margaret, your writing style seems uncannily familiar to me. Is it possible that I would remember you from QuantumLink lo these many years ago, from online x-men-derived freeform rpg and later from the EQ interactive fiction boards?)