Snape-As-Dementor Theory (WAS New Theory about Why Sirius Played)

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 33862

Finwitch wrote:

> What if Snape's a werewolf? He CAN brew Wolfsbane potion himself 
that 
> no one notices, he knows about Whomping Willow...


Eh, maybe it's time to toss out a theory about why Snape is the way 
he is.  Canon gives us lots of clues that Snape is far from normal:  
greasy hair, a silky voice, sallow skin, mean-spirited, occupies a 
dungeon, severe personality, prowling the castle, doesn't spend a lot 
of time outside in the sun, and associated with evil DEs.  He is 
described as gliding, gives Neville the shakes and is Neville's 
deepest fear.  Others have said this adds up to Snape-As-Vampire.  I 
have said before that it adds up to Snape-As-Half-Dementor.  But how 
could a wizard have, um, relations with a dementor to produce Snape, 
The Half-Dementor?  

Well, how about this?  Snape isn't a direct descendant of a dementor 
via marriage.  Instead, Snape's mother was pregnant with him when she 
was attacked by a dementor.  She was unable to ward off the dementor, 
and the dementor sucked out her soul, leaving her alive and still 
gestating our little Severus.  She continued to exist and Severus was 
born.  Because his mother was relieved of her soul while he was in 
utero, Severus is part-dementor and has many of the characteristics 
of a dementor, but not to the same degree as a real dementor (cold, 
gliding, draining happiness from the air around them, infesting the 
darkest places).

So for instance (and this isn't in canon, so bear with me), perhaps 
Snape has greasy hair because he cannot tolerate water.  (Note that 
there is a stone gargoyle fountain in Snape's classroom, but we never 
see him touch water.)  He can tolerate enough water to wipe his skin 
clean, but taking a shower to wash his hair would finish him.  
Although Snape shares an affinity with dementors, he resents them for 
what they did to his poor mother.  Severus may have lost a bit of his 
soul in the attack as well.  Dumbledore knows that Snape is part-
dementor, but this is consistent with Dumbledore's willingness to 
hire people others wouldn't.

This backstory, in turn, explains why Snape did not hand Black to the 
dementors in PoA when Snape had the chance.  Deep down, Snape could 
not be directly responsible for allowing dementors to do what they 
did to his mother and suck out Black's soul, despite how deeply he 
hates Black.

OK, it's not L.O.L.L.I.P.O.P.S., but it's a start. :-)

Cindy (hoping Lupin will teach Neville to conjure a Patronus to get 
even with Snape)