Snape Poisioning the Longbottoms? Was: Is Agnes Snape's Mother?

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 86307

> sunnylove0 at a... wrote:<snip>> 
> 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<snip>

> Angel wrote:
> I think this works. <snip>  The man in the pensieve, is Snape's 
father. <snip> The Longbottoms raid the Snape house, while Agnes is 
brewing, and arrest Snape Senior. Agnes' work is interrupted, <snip> 
She is rendered into a dog. Which makes me wonder if part of the 
reason for the Longbottom's madness is revenge for an injury 
inflicted on one of their own, who happened to be innocent. <snip>
 

Now me:
Great catch Sunnylove. Very interesting.  I also think it works and I 
would like to add to Angel theory the idea that Severus Snape is 
actively keeping the Longbottoms incapacitated and hospitalized. 

If it was the Longbottoms who raided the Snape household and chaos 
ensued and Mrs. Snape was injured badly and Mr. Snape arrested or 
even killed? Would it be enough of an incentive for the vindictive 
Severus to keep the Longbottoms mad as revenge.  We know he didn't 
put the Longbottoms in St. Mungos originally but if suddenly found 
them lying in bed next to his mother...the temptation to extract 
revenge on them would be huge and it wouldn't take much to keep 
slipping poison in to their food, water, plant...etc.  
 
Could this be one of the 3 silver thread secrets Snape pulled out of 
his head and put into the Pensive in OotP?

Could Snape keep these actions from Dumbledore? We know how skilled 
Snape is in Occulmency but is Dumbledore a better Ligitimens? 

Is Snape that vindictive?

Even if Snape's parents were casualties of the war and even if Snape 
blames himself for his parents being injured by Aurors, I still don't 
see this as enough of an incentive for Snape to switch sides.  If 
anything it would make him more loyal to LV. However your theory 
doesn't prevent something else happing to Snape which ultimately made 
join Dumbledore. 

I'd love for this theory to be chewed on for a while.  If anyone else 
has any thoughts....

Mandy.