The inner Snape /SHIP McGonagall

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 77109

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "feetmadeofclay" 
<feetmadeofclay at y...> wrote:
 
> Why not?  She's a spry healthy witch.  If charlie chaplin could 
have 
> babies in his 70's why can't McGonagall marry Snape.
> 
> I can just see the chess games over tea. Oh to be the child of that 
> marriage would be bliss.   
> 


Trying to shake that image is harder than shaking the bikini-undies 
on!  I wonder if perhaps "we're" looking in the wrong direction here 
as to their relationship. 
They have *always* been friendly and except for DD, who Snape is 
deferential to (grammar police on the way) and who treats Snape like 
an annoyance at best--garbage at worst, she's really the only one who 
seems to have any sort of camaraderie with SS that we are privvy to.
Given how long she's been at HW and looking at the awful scenes of 
SS's childhood we've been given I wonder if perhaps MMcG didn't at 
one time play a surrogate mother role or at least that of a caring 
aunt at some point during SS's school days.

I find this far more palatable than thinking of her as his wife... I 
might go as far as Mother-in-Law but there's no evidence of that 
either.

Melpomene