Snape the Half-blood?

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 44822

Pip!Squeak wrote:
>>> Is Snape's background like Voldemort's and Harry's? A half-blood
boy, brought up by the muggle side of his family? Whose 'muggle'
relatives or foster parents disliked his magical blood; and who went
the DE route as a way of trying to reject that side of himself?<<<


My one question:
If Snape had been raised by muggles like Voldemort and Harry, then how
did he, as a 11 year old first year, know more curses coming into
Hogwarts than half of the 7th years?  (GoF, Padfoot Returns chapter)
He could only been taught them by his family or family friends.

Maybe that is why he moved on to potions.  He found the subject more
challenging.  Since he found wandwork so easy and had "mastered" dark
arts and dueling, he moved on to the harder, more difficult forms of
magic where the wizard needs muggle strengths along with magic
knowledge.  Exacting math, reliable logic, gentle slight of hand are
all needed to create those delicate potions.  If in fact Snape had
been raised in a magic family, it seems that his upbringing would be
mostly heavy on the magical instead of the muggle.

Granted, this small discussion does not prove he isn't a half-blood
but I think we can rule out him being of muggle decent or raised by
muggles only.

Melody
Who is greatly amused that the category 4 hurricane coming straight
for her home town is named Lily.  So much terror Lily will bring.