Re: Severus snape´s possible ethnic background

[Chrissi]

No: HPFGUIDX 75527

Dear Cindy,

all that funny speculations like "Snape is a Vampire", or "James
switched body with Remus" and so on are much more weird and
unbelievable than my odd Gypsy idea. I´d never said I know it, but I
got an impression he maybe could be one. And why not? What´s wrong to
be a Gypsy? Or why shouldn´t he be a pureblood who is unnamed because
of the arrogance of the English purebloods? 

Ok, I hope you now understand better what I was talking about. Once
again: I don´t know it, I just combinated several facts from the books
with antropolgical facts and my knowledge of ethnical sterotypes which
still exists among people and their myths about "weird strangers". 

>From my point of view JKR uses stereotypes to teach the readers
lessons. A very good example is the treatment of Snivellus by the
Marauders, who first seemed to be the nice guys, but in fact were
nothing more than nasty bullies (as I thought long before the fith
book released). By the way, I don´t mean Snape maybe had been the
better one, but he has been alone and they were two, if not four,
which made them in my eyes cowards.


Bye

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy" <xpectopatronum at y...> wrote:
> --- 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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