Snape and Krum -Relatives?

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 87048

Krum and Snape are both described as being thin, dark and sallow-
skinned with large hooked/curved noses and black, prominent eyes. 
They're both distinctly round-shouldered (the juvenile version of 
Snape), and both are described looking like overgrown winged 
creatures; one as a bat and the other as a bird of prey. Snape is 
described as walking in a twitching manner; Krum is duck-footed and 
also walking awkwardly. Both have a grumpy and surly look about them; 
keeping to themselves, being moody and not too talkative; scowling, 
contracting their eyebrows etc. What Snape doesn't seem to have, are 
Krum's thick eyebrows, and Krum's hair doesn't seem to be greasy. But 
other than that the two are described very similarly, aren't they, 
both when it comes to physical appearance and personality.

Anyone thinks this is significant; that they might be related 
somehow? I'm not saying Krum is Snape's son (I don't think so), just 
that they might be related; purely based on Rowling's description of 
them. I'm sorry if this topic has been dealt with earlier on this 
forum; I tried to search for anything on the subject, but couldn't 
find any...

If you like to look at the "evidence", I've collected a few quotes 
describing the two:

Descriptions of Krum:

"The tents here had not been bedecked with plant life, but each and 
every one of them had the same poster attached to it, a poster of a 
very surly face with heavy black eyebrows. The picture was of course 
moving, but all it did was blink and scowl.
`Krum,' said Ron quietly. ...'Viktor Krum, the Bulgarian Seeker!'
`He looks really grumpy,' said Hermione, looking around at the many 
Krums blinking and scowling a them.
`Really grumpy?' Ron raised his eyes to the heavens. `Who cares what 
he looks like? He's unbelievable. He's really young, too. Only 
eighteen or something. He's a genius, you wait until tonight, you'll 
see.'" (GoF p. 77)

"Viktor Krum was thin, dark and sallow-skinned, with a large curved 
nose and thick black eyebrows. He looked like an overgrown bird of 
prey. It was hard to believe he was only eighteen." (GoF p. 95)

"Krum, who was last in line, looked a real mess. Two black eyes were 
blooming spectacularly on his bloody face. He was still holding the 
snitch. Harry noticed that he seemed much less co-ordinated on the 
ground. He was slightly duck-footed and distinctly round-shouldered." 
(GoF p. 104)

"He [Ron] took his small figure of Krum out of his pocket, set it 
down on the ground and watched it walk around for a while. Like the 
real Krum, the model was slightly duck-footed and round-shouldered, 
much less impressive on his splayed feet than on his broomstick." 
(GoF p. 114)

"Viktor Krums surly face darkened as he surveyed Harry"...
"Krum's thick eyebrows contracted slightly." (GoF p. 241)

"Viktor Krum was standing moodily in a corner as usual, and not 
talking to anybody." (GoF p. 265)


Descriptions of Snape:

"Professor Quirrell... was talking to a teacher with greasy hair, a 
hooked nose and sallow skin." (PS p. 94)

"His eyes were black like Hagrid's, but they had none of Hagrid's 
warmth. They were cold and empty and made one think of dark tunnels." 
(PS p. 102)

"...So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat." (PS 
p. 209)

"There, his black robes rippling in a cold breezer, stood Severus 
Snape. He was a thin man with sallow skin, a hooked nose and greasy, 
shoulder-length  black hair..." (CoS p. 62)

"...Snape, gliding over like a large, malevolent bat." (CoS p. 144)

"Snape-the-teenager had a stringy, pallid look about him, like a 
plant kept in the dark. His hair was lanky and greasy, and was 
flopping on to the table, his hooked nose barely half an inch from 
the surface of the parchment as he scribbled." (OotP p. 564)

"Round-shouldered yet angular, he walked in a twitchy manner that 
recalled a spider, and his oily hair was jumping about his face." 
(OotP p. 566)

Quotes are from the UK Editions.

Berit