Snape's Secret Snogging (SHIP)

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 38091

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "L. Terrell Gould, III" 
<lterrellgiii at i...> wrote:
..OR, adding to the pot the fact that we "know" she is a witch (the 
very same Arabella Figg mentioned in GoF), maybe the smell isn't 
cabbages at all, but brewing potions! Stay with me here......  Ok, so 
the idea that Mrs. Figg may be very talented at potions, who better 
to attract the oh-so-terribly-lonesome-heart of one....... Severus 
Snape!  (Enter "Aha!"s and gasps of excitement here.) They certainly 
would have interacted, both being a part of "the old crowd" mentioned 
by Dumbledore.
>     So, the bitter and miserly Potions Master is really so because 
of a love separated from him by the duty she swore. . . .  to protect 
the very person he hates so much!  (More "Aha!"s and gasps, if you 
please.)


Not that I want to deny Snape the benefits of a loving relationship 
(even if it is accompanied by the not-very-erotic wafting of strong 
vegetative odors), but I see several potential problems here.  

Mrs. Figg is described as being an old woman.  If that's truly the 
case, she and Snape would not have been students at Hogwarts at the 
same time.  So, whatever her skill at Potions, she would have been 
long gone by the time Snape arrived at Hogwarts.  Unless, she was, 
perhaps, the Potions Master...hmmm. Or unless her current old age is 
a disguise and she's really much younger.

Also, I'm not convinced that Snape was part of the group Dumbledore 
refers to when he mentions "the old crowd."  He mentions names in his 
instructions to Sirius in GoF as if, of course, Sirius would know who 
he was talking about.  Earlier in the book, Sirius mentions that 
Dumbledore trusts Snape, but still seems unsure of Snape's role or 
past actions. I read all this as evidence that Sirius knows who 
the "old crowd" was because he was one of them, but Snape was not.  

I think that at the time the "old crowd" was fighting against 
Voldemort, Snape was either still a DE, or had come back to 
Dumbledore's side and was working as a double agent.  If he was a 
double agent, his identity as such would have been kept as secret as
possible, so I doubt there would have been much of a chance for any 
sort of interaction between Mrs. Figg and Snape during this period of 
their lives.


Marianne, who's also not fond of the Snape-Lily SHIP