Snape/Petunia Connection

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 44591


I have been giggling behind my hand at this whole thread, which strikes me as 
one of those gloriously silly digressions wherin one attempts to prove 
logically that black is white and white is red. Thank you all for some fine 
entertainment. 

Now, as to "Perseus Evans"; I suspect that if he ever existed (and, yes, I 
know he does in fanon), isn't it a lot more likely that he was an identity 
assumed by Snape than the other way around? Now, really, wouldn't it have 
appealed to Snape's rather spiteful sense of humor, when exercising his 
cleverness in creating an anagram identity for himself, to deliberately adopt 
a throughly "Gryffandoresquely" *heroic* name like *Perseus* coupled with the 
family name of that Muggle-born Evans? He was probably snickering up his 
sleeve when it dawned on him that the letters of his own name could be pushed 
into that arangement. 

Which leads me to suspect that the name (if it ever was used) was adopted 
originally in Voldemort's service, since the adoption of such a Muggle family 
name as Evans might have been useful in confusing any tracking. (Although 
given the commoness of the name there might, for all we know, actually be 
some wizarding Evanses, even if no connection to Petunia and Lily.)

-JOdel