Snape's child
arcum42
Arcum_Dagsson at celticwind.zzn.com
Wed Aug 28 07:38:03 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 43276
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
>
> Arcum writes (on possibility of Snape having a child):
>
> > Oh, I could see it. A lot of his nastiness I see as having
> > accrued over time. It could be good for a few bangs, too.
> > Suppose Snape had a child who died as a direct result of
> > DE activities? That could easily have been what pushed him
> > over to Dumbledores court.
>
> Hmm, what if the woman and unborn child were killed either
> by Voldemort for some stupid reason or as you say, resulting
> from DE activities? Snape could've kept up the front to
> support Voldemort, yet inside a hatred would be growing
> stronger all the time.
>
> now Leon says:
> > The only problem with the theory is that Dumbledore says
> > in GOF that Snape changed over from Voldemort's team well
> > in advance of his(Voldy's) downfall, and was a double-
> > agent at great personal risk. Even 9 months (assuming Lily
> > was due at that moment, which she wasn't; and assuming
> > Snape could know immediately at the moment of conception -
> > still all of that does not count as "well in advance".
>
> Where does it say "well in advance?" Sorry, can't recall. >
Doesn't mean it isn't there, understand, my brain's just a
> bit fried.
>
The only canon I can think of at the moment on it is this:
"I have given evidence already on this matter," he said
calmly. "Severus Snape was indeed a Death Eater. However, he
rejoined our side before Lord Voldemort's downfall and turned
spy for us, at great personal risk. He is now no more a Death
Eater than I am."
This specifies "before LV's downfall", but doesn't specify how soon
before. So we could hypothetically have him find out Lily is pregnant
right before finding out that James & Lily are targets, and going to
Dumbledore at that point.
Or, since I don't really like the timing on that, we could go to the
Snape had a (Unborn?) Child theory, sans Lily. We could say, for
example, that Snape knocked Florence up behind the greenhouse, and
didn't tell Voldemort about it to protect her from Death Eater
politics. Then she gets killed by the Death Eaters (for any of a
number of possible reasons), leaving Snape with a bitterness that
eventually leads him away from Voldemort.
Of course, that also gives Voldemort knowledge that Snape and
Florence were an item via Bertha ("She told me many things", after
all...), and that, indeed would give him good reason to believe Snape
has left him forever. The more I think about it, the more I like the
idea, actually...
--Arcum
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