Severus Snape and The Incident

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 40071

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

And Dave wrote:


> 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.
> 
 

And I write:

Hey, why not? As Felicia said, there is no evidence for or against 
house-switching and as I've said many times, the hatred Snape shows 
for James, Lupin and Black, and by extension, Harry, Ron, Hermione 
and Neville, seems to go much deeper than Quidditch jealousy.

The whole bit about being readmitted under an alias has a big factor 
in favor and a big factor against.

Against: Unless he drastically changed his appearance, the other 
students would likely know who he was. Of course, as we've discussed 
with the Time Turner, the students and faculty can be made woefully 
ignorant of the events around them if it suits JKR's plot.

For: It ties in nicely with Dumbledore being a far-thinking 
mastermind. Snape is obviously brilliant and was a brilliant student -
- he knew more curses ... blah, blah, blah -- and Dumbledore realized 
it would be better to have such a mind around where he could have a 
chance of molding it.

Hey, it's as good as any other theory. 

Darrin --
If JKR could see us now... she'd really bust a gut with laughter... 
or with disgust. :)