Re: Where Snape belongs on the family tree

[evangelina839]

No: HPFGUIDX 79156

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy" <xpectopatronum at y...> wrote:
> No, I still believe that Severus is a pureblood wizard.
> Again, he is too shrewd and cunning to call Lily a mudblood, and have 
> the insult thrown back at him.
> Also, I believe that the parents of all the other Slytherin students 
> would highly object to having a half-blood, or mudblood as head of 
> Slytherin house - it would have to be someone that they, and the 
> students could respect - someone who fits the Slytherin ideology 
> perfectly. And before you coment about Voldemort being a half-blood - 
> remember Bellatrix's reaction at the DoM.
> 
> -Cindy (who stand firmly by her theory that Severus is a prueblood)

Yeah, the fact that Snape calls Lily a mudblood is a good indication that h=
e himself is 
pureblood, but I still don't think it rules out the possibility of his fath=
er being a squib 
or muggleborn. I think having a "mudblood" that he hated in a parental posi=
tion gives 
Snape a suitable motive for wanting to join the DEs – and also leave them. =
He realized 
he couldn't project the anger he felt for his father onto other people.
As for halfblood!Snape being unfit for the Head of Slytherin position, I wo=
nder if 
everyone's ancestry really is such a common knowledge. Draco calls Hermione=
 
mudblood, but maybe he just made the effort to find out how pure her blood =
was 
(however much I hate writing an expression like that), since she's a friend=
 of Harry's. I 
can't remember him ever calling another student specifically a mudblood. Th=
e "you're 
next, mudbloods", or whatever the line was, in CoS doesn't count. :) My gue=
ss is 
that's it's not such a tricky business to find out, and anyone who searches=
, finds the 
answer. But I also think it was less easy when MWPP and Snape went to schoo=
l – 
wasn't that right at the start of LV's first era? Muggles and mudbloods get=
ting 
attacked all over the place – I'm sure a lot of people tried to hide or cha=
nge their 
official family history. And obviously the Hogwarts students were less like=
ly to discuss 
those matters at the dinner table, like Harry heard his peers do in PS/SS.
Also, maybe having a squib for parent doesn't automatically mean that you a=
re a 
halfblood. After all, all your grandparents could still be all witches and =
wizards.

evangelina (getting more and more comfortable in her own little camp)