[HPforGrownups] Snape the Half-blood?

[Loony Loopy]

No: HPFGUIDX 44846

bluesqueak wrote:

>Is Snape a half-blood? Not half-vampire, or
>half-dementor, or half any other 'interestin'
>creature' but plain old half-muggle.

One of bluesqueak's supporting points was:

>Snape refers to "foolish wand-waving". [PS/SS
>Ch. 8 p.102 UK paperback]. This is a strange
>comment for a full-blood wizard to make. For one
>thing, it isn't that Snape is bad at wand-
>waving. He shows considerable expertise in the
>Shrieking Shack [PoA Ch.19, UK hardback] and in
>CoS is described as having experience in
>duelling [See CoS Ch. 11]. Further, wizards
>brought up in the WW see their parents using
>wands as a serious tool from babyhood.[See
>especially GoF Ch.7 p.75 UK hardback for some
>baby wizards using wands]

bluesqueak also wrote:

>For Snape to see wand waving as 'foolish'
>suggests that he's been brought up *outside* the
>WW, where wand-waving is just a game of 'let's
>pretend'.

I agree it's possible that Snape is half-Muggle,
but his "foolish wand-waving" comment doesn't
necessarily support this theory. Muggle children
sometimes make "vroom, vroom" sound effects when
pretending to drive their parents' cars. I
imagine wizard children might have similar
creative energies when trying to cast a spell
that they don't yet know. I think Snape doesn't
have the patience to put up with a class full of
exaggerated wand-waving. 

Loony Loopy


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