Where Snape belongs on the family tree.

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 79089

> evangelina:
> <snip>
> About 15 or 16 years old, the Malfoy sister accidentally gets 
> pregnant with a muggle/squib. Her parents go ballistic and blasts
> her off the Malfoy family tree, if there ever was one. Their 
> daughter is kicked out of home and marries her Mr Snape. Some time 
> after that wedding, the Malfoy sister confesses that she is a 
> witch. And just like the elder Tom Riddle, Mr Snape is not
> happy. <snip>
> 
> Finchen:
> <snip>
> Sounds all as weired as anything else on this subject, so it could 
> be (somehow) be possible if there wasn't the fact that his mother 
> is a wich and could therefore defend herself and stop her husband 
> behaving like that.
> Usually women who can not defend themselves because of being too 
> weak are in a situation that is described in this scene. So I doubt 
> her being the magical relative of Snape's.
> 
Cindy:
<snip>
My theory about Severus is that -
he is a pureblood. Firstly - he called Lily a "filthy mudblood", and 
that reminds me of how Draco (pureblood) called Hermione a "filthy 
little mudblood". He is also the HEAD of Slytherin house - and good 
friends with Lucius Malfoy. <snip>

Me (Marika):
I love all the theories above, so please let me stir the stew and add 
a few spices.
Severus's mother came from a snobbish pureblood family - possibly the 
Malfoys. "Unfortunately" she was a squib, meaning the family was 
ashamed of her. When Mr. Snape started to show some (sexual) interest 
in her, her family encouraged this relationship - he was a pureblood 
after all. Maybe her parents even offered to support them financially 
if they got married, at least to start with. Mr "lazy and fond of 
alcohol" Snape thought that this offer was just too good to turn 
down, and married a woman he neither loved nor respected. Since her 
self-esteem was bad to start with, she didn't dare to leave him, not 
even to make life better for her son.
This means that Severus is technically a pureblood, which makes him:
* accepted among people like the Malfoys
* suitable for the job as head of Slytherin house 
* "free" to use the term "mudblood" (even though you would think he 
wouldn't since it might have been the same type of "racism" his 
mother was a victim of).

Marika :-)