Snape's intolerance (was: Some points in OOP)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86343

> > > Carol:
> > >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. <snip> 
>
Iggy:
<snip>
> > What is part of Snape's problem with werewolves doesn't only come 
> from
> > the prank almost played by the Marauders... <snip> 

Marci:
> Did I miss something?  I did not think Snape's intolerance was with 
> all werewolves and 'dogs' but just ones in particular; Remus and 
> Sirius, and probably more due to their closeness with his nemesis, 
> James.
> 
> Now if he truly hates all werewolves, could that be another pointed 
> added on to the speculation that he might be a vampire?
> 
> And I must add that the connection made to Agnes was a very good 
> catch indeed!  Acronym for that theory anyone?

Carol:
First, I want to make clear that I don't think Agnes has turned into a
werewolf. She barks (like a dog, not a wolf) and there's no evidence
that she bites. That aside, I think Snape *does* have a general
antipathy to werewolves and anyone or anything else that isn't a
pureblood wizard. That antipathy is common among former Slytherins
whether or not they became Death Eaters. The fact that he hates a
particular werewolf and a particular animagus who turns into a dog
(and was alive at the time of the St. Mungo's visit) would make his
mother's transformation into a furry-faced creature who can only bark,
not speak, even more humiliating than it would be for, say, Lucius
Malfoy or any other Slytherin-bred pureblood. 

As for the vampire theory, I don't see the connection. Snape rightly
fears for the students' safety with a werewolf around (even Lupin
himself concedes this point and acts on it by resigning). He would
also fear for their safety with a vampire in the castle. (He's been
there fourteen years and hasn't bitten a student yet. I don't know why
we can't let the vampire theory rest in peace.)

Anyway, Agnes obviously became the way she is either through a
malicious spell or a spell that went wrong. Maybe, like Luna's mother,
she tried an experiment on herself that backfired, but I think it
unlikely that JKR would reuse that idea. Assuming that she really is
Severus's mother, I think it's unlikely in the extreme that he would
have cast a spell on her or given a dangerous potion on Voldemort's
orders. That order in itself would be sufficient to alienate him. I
think another Death Eater, possibly his own abusive father, cast the
spell, giving Snape a very good reason to leave the Death Eaters
without his father or Voldemort knowing that he had done so.

It is, of course, possible that Agnes is a red herring, but Bode, the
man who received the Devil's Snare as a Christmas present, wasn't, and
I don't think that Agnes is, either.

Carol