Some points in OOP

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86277

- sunnylove0 at a... wrote:
> <snip>
> > 
> > 2) Agnes, the lady in St. Mungo's, who is told by the healer that
> her son is 
> > dropping by that night, and in the very next chapter Snape is in his
> good 
> > traveling cloak and repeatedly says he has somewhere else to be (of
> course it 
> > could be wanting to get away from Sirius or a DE meeting, but....)
> 
> 
> Oh, well spotted! as JKR would say. That's very intriguing, putting
> two and two together as Snape himself would do. I wonder if you're
> right, and if his treatment of Neville somehow reflects his resentment
> of his own mother's condition. I don't dare speculate, but if you're
> right, we may have the real reason, or yet another reason, for Snape's
> defection from the DEs.
> 
> Can you provide a page reference or chapter title, please?
> 
> Carol, who wondered what happened to Snape's parents and hopes he
> loves his mother


Responding to my own post here--oh, my! The furry-faced woman who
barks! (OoP 512 Am. ed.) If she *is* Snape's mother, given his
animosity toward werewolves and other, er, aberrations (and a certain
animagus who turns into a dog), her condition must be humiliating for
him. And if despite all that, he goes to visit her and gives her
Christmas presents rather than denying her existence, then fifty
points for Severus. And fifty more for Neville if he knows about it
and keeps his mouth shut. But I don't know what to hope now, except
that someone finds a cure for poor Agnes, regardless of who her son
is. But if Snape can't find the right potion, who can?

Carol, who for once is almost glad she lives in the RW