Re: Severus snape´s possible ethnic background

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 75438

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chrissi" <chrissilein at y...> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As we already know Severus had been the "oddball" at Hogwarts, and the
> most unpopular student at school. He looks "different" and seems to be
> a "pureblood", but the Snapes don´t appear among the other
> pureblood
> families.

Now Cindy:

How do you know that the Snape's don't appear among other wizarding
families? You don't, that's the whole point. Firstly, all we have to
go on is one tapestry - and that is a Black family tree, perhaps the
Snape's arn't  interrelated with the Blacks, or perhaps Harry didn't
bother looking at the whole tapestry - it is huge, and Harry only
looked at a small portion of it.
  
> If you read very intensive about his magical abilities, the short
> snips of his childhood and his unbelievele grudge he hold there could
> be a different possibility. 

Cindy again: 

If you look at Draco's magical abilities you will find that they are
similar to the way Snape's are described as being at Draco's age. It
seems to me more that it is a pureblood tradition, to teach their
children as much as they can about all kinds of magic, especially the
kind that isn't taught at school. I have no doubts that Snape is a
pureblood wizard. He is the Head of Slytherin house, called Lilly a
filthy mudblood, and only wears robes with no muggle clothes
underneath. So it would be fitting that he would learn those things at
home. And we don'treally know anything about his parents - where did
Snape's father's loyalties luy? 

> Several prejudicies are:
> 
> 1.they are untrustworthy
> 2.they are curious, sneaking around, try to harm the "others" (people
> who live at one place)
> 2.they are very advanced at dark magic, do potions, are good
> mindreaders, know a lot about the "others" weakness
> 3.they are filthy, live in mess
> 4.they praticise vegeance
> 5.they hold grudge in generations against their enemies
> 6.they are proud
> 7.they are "ugly"
> 8.they strengthend their kids to fight with all resorts they learned
> by parents and family
> 9. they are thieves
> 10. they are jealous because of the good life the "others" seem to
> have
> 11.they have no place to live, because they are always drifting from
> one place to an other
> 12. they are simply weird, in different ways
> 
> These are typical stereotypes about the gypsies, and Severus Snape
> could be of a gypsy origin. Even he lives an assimilated life.

Cindy again:

This is an interesting theory, and who knows, you might be right. I
can't wait to learn more about Snape, he is my most favourite
character. Though, Gypsy's generally tend to have dark skin, and Snape
is extremely pale. 
I have noticed though, that many characters in the HP world resemble
each other. (Tom Riddle telling Harry that they look very similar
comes to mind). This is either because they are interrelated, or
something else that we don't yet know!
But I have noticed that many characters have black hair: Snape,
Riddle, Potter(s), Black(s) etc...

-Cindy
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