Re:_Where_Snape_belongs_on_the_family_tree

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 79211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, An'nai Jiriki <xmezumiiru at y...> 
wrote:
> <snip> 
> Lastly, and a bit of a stretch, is that Snape
> fulfilled the requirements for Slytherin, in all but
> the pure-bred status, as a muggle-born. In the first
> few hat speeches, it states that Slytherin has
> ambition as its main attribute, and not to later do we
> find out Slytherin wanted only purebreds, but the hat
> never said it excludes all but purebreds. Hence,
> little muggle-born Snape gets into Slytherin and in
> order for him to be reasonably accepted and not beaten
> up, he would need to denounce what he is. 
> <snip>
> Chris

He defenitely didn't grow up among muggles. At least according to 
Black, Snape knew a great number of curses when he came to Hogwarts. 
It's very likely he leart those either for self-protection or because 
he grew up in an environment where somebody (his father?) used them a 
lot.

Marika (who likes Snape a lot, but in real life always would go for 
somebody like Lupin)