[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape-As-Dementor Theory/ Kissing Harry

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 33995

In a message dated 22/01/02 01:13:58 GMT Standard Time, cindysphynx at home.com 
writes:


> 
> 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.  
> 

I love your theory, Cindy, but I don't get this dementors and water thing. I 
mean, why would you need that terribly difficult to perform Patronus spell, 
when all you'd need is to conjure a bucket of water or a nice rain cloud  
(and in fact IIRC they invaded the Quidditch pitch in the rain) - or perhaps 
their cloaks are impermeable.

Now what about this one. Snape's mother, no, grandmother, was the Wicked 
Witch of the West  : ) ....that would explain his apparent hydrophobia!

>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.

I thought this was exactly what he intended to do:

'Up to the castle?' said Snape silkily. 'I don't think we need to go that 
far. All I have to do is call the Dementors once we get out of the Willow. 
They'll be very pleased to see you, Black...pleased enough to give you a 
little kiss, I daresay...' (goes on to threaten Lupin with similar fate)

He was prevented from calling them by being unconscious.

Which leads me to another puzzle: 

How did Fudge know that the Dementor had tried to kiss Harry? If Snape, as he 
claims, didn't come round until the Dementors were going back to their 
positions, the only other possible witness was Sirius, who also appears, 
although it is not specifically stated, to be unconscious at the time (lying 
motionless on the ground, pale as death). Even if he was conscious, did Fudge 
bother to question him? My impression is that Fudge got his account of events 
from Snape, Dumbledore is the one who bothers to get Sirius' account.

Just wondering

Eloise, who until proved wrong, prefers to go on believing that Snape is All 
Wizard!



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