[HPforGrownups] Severus Snape and The Incident

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 40065


Friday, June 14, 2002, 10:35:46 AM, Felicia Rickmann wrote:

FR> Much detailed discussion has taken place about The Prank and if there was
FR> something earlier e.g. The Incident, say, a house move *might* not be out of
FR> the question, given Snape's gift for potions.  There may be no canonical
FR> evidence for house changing but it can't be completely unknown - just out of
FR> Harry's sphere of knowledge.

This idea about Snape changing houses makes my want to combine it with
my other pet theory about Snape changing *identities*, so that we get
the following:

Snape is born Perseus Evans, half-blood cousin to our "Darling Lily".
He comes to Hogwarts and is sorted in Gryffindor, along with Lily and
the Fab Four.  Then, for reasons as yet unknown, he is expelled (this
explains his obsession with getting Harry expelled -- Revenge!), but
Dumbledore allows him to be re-admitted under an alias.  So Perseus
scrambles the letters in his name to "Severus Snape", and this time is
sorted into Slytherin, now a bitter and sour kid (from the humilation
of his expulsion and the aftermath), and becomes the thorn in the side
of the Potter family that we know and love/hate.

Comments...?

FR> (I am always puzzled why Neville - a gifted
FR> herbology student - was placed in Gryffindor.  I know his Mum and Dad were
FR> attached but.....)

I'm afraid that I fail to see any connection between a particular
House and a particular magical discipline... Can you elaborate?
(I apologize if it's already been covered -- I know I'm about 5 days
behind in reading HP4GU msgs...)

-- 
Dave