Snape's son at Hogwarts?!!

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 77837

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greatlit2003" <hieya at h...> 
wrote:
> "There were only two other people who seemed to be able to see them 
> [the thestrals]: a stringy Slytherin boy standing just behind Goyle 
> was watching the horse eating with an expression of great distaste 
on 
> his face, and Neville..." (OoP, US hardcover, 445)
> 
> "Snape-the-teenager had a stringy, pallid look about him..." (p. 
640)
> 
> JKR doesn't use the word "stringy" too often. (I don't recall 
seeing 
> that word in the book series before, if anyone *has* seen it, 
please 
> let me know). So when she uses it twice in the same book, I am 
> suspicious.
> 
> The boy wore a disgusted expression on his face. For me, this is an 
> important clue, because JKR repeatedly mentions Snape's habitual 
> sneers and smirks. If Snape has a son at Hogwarts, his position as 
a 
> character will completely change. Perhaps he is not a spy for 
> Dumbledore out of a sense of honor. Maybe he wasn't in love with 
> Lily, or have some kind of vendetta against Voldemort. Perhaps he's 
> just trying to protect his kid. 
> 
> Snape became a spy for DD circa 1980. I had previously assumed that 
> this was somehow connected to Harry's birth in 1980. But what if it 
> wasn't? If Snape's own son was born in 1980, he had a reason for 
> stopping the violence. Maybe he had witnessed atrocities against 
> other families, and he didn't want his own son mixed up in that. 
The 
> possiblities are endless. And it also accounts for Dumbledore's 
trust 
> in Snape. DD knows that Snape would never betray him, because by 
> doing so he would be killing his own son.
> 
> As for Snape's hatred for James, I have a feeling that the 
mysterious 
> Florence was Snape's girlfriend, and maybe James killed her in his 
> work for the Order. Maybe the boy witnessed his mother die, which 
is 
> why he can see thestrals?
> 
> If the boy is Snape's son, one might wonder why he isn't good 
friends 
> with Malfoy, who clearly likes Snape? Maybe Snape has chosen not to 
> tell anyone that the boy is his, because he is afraid that someone 
> might harm him. The boy himself might not know.
> 
> Maybe Snape would like to teach DADA so badly because he wants to 
> teach his own son how to fight, without anyone suspecting that the 
> two are related.
> 
> Why doesn't Snape raise his own son? Maybe he's just afraid that he 
> will be a bad parent like his own father was. He may not want his 
son 
> to inherit his reputation and get picked on. More importantly, he 
may 
> not want Voldemort to know he has a son, in case Voldemort wants to 
> recruit him into the Death Eaters, or people like Malfoy try to 
> befriend him. (I think that Snape dislikes the Malfoys deep down).
> 
> Does anyone else think it's crazy that although there are only 
twenty 
> kids in Harry's Potions and Care of Mag. Creatures class (the same 
> kids too, year after year), and Harry still doesn't know their 
names? 
> We only know Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dean, Neville, Seamus, Parvati, 
> Lavender, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy. What about the other 
eight?
> But I digress.
> 
> Any thoughts about this?
> 
> greatlit2003
> Snape Daddy: name has a nice ring

I love it!  Can it hold up..:-) 
Only one thought right now:  James doesn't have to have killed 
Florence. (Although it does raise the stakes if he did.) He could 
just be the boy kissing her behind the greenhouses.  That would 
certainly feed Snape's hatred of the 'arrogant' James Potter.
I'll continue to mull on your interesting theory.
Mandy