OOP: Snape, the Pensieve, and "Perseus"+Tonks and Auror!Potters

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 66633

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Dave wrote:I think the "Perseus Evans" theory can be salvaged, but 
Lily
clearly was not his "Andromeda"; and now I'm wondering if
*Andromeda* (Tonks' mum) was his "Andromeda"...?  So his relationship
with Lily was probably unknown to both of them, for whatever reason.
And now let's see if we can figure out why not!  (Separated at birth?
Son of Mr. Evans from a previous marriage?  Mr. Evans actually 
Snape's squib uncle?  &c., &c.)  And of course speculate on what his 
heroic connection with Andromeda might have been...

Kirstini:
Ooh, now then. Snape as Tonks' real father? Because she could Morph 
away the grease and the hooked nose, so there doesn't have to be a 
genetic resemblance, and look:

"...her nose swelled to a beak-like protuberance that resembled 
Snape's..." OoP, Bloomsbury, p81.

She kept it in her repartee!

I know this is all wildly non-canonical speculation. I will allow 
myself two further points, and then I'm done. I've just warmed to 
this idea.
1. JKR said we would find out about the teachers' home-lives, and we 
haven't. Not at all. Not even the merest whisper of a Mr McGonagall 
or a photo of a family of even tinier Flitwicks propped up on the 
Charms desk. So therefore the information must be being held back 
for some great, meatily satisfying plot explanation. There's got to 
be a love child in there somewhere...
2. The age thing is a problem. Auror training takes three years 
after Hogwarts, so newly qualified Tonks, assuming she didn't have a 
gap year, must be about 20-21 to Snape's 38. We are unlikely to get 
any teenage pregnancies in a relatively conservative* children's 
book series. But say we did - remember that one of the bastions of 
the dearly-missed Florence went as follows: Snape hates Sirius 
because Sirius was an arrogant bully who tried to kill him. But why 
does Sirius hate Snape with equal passion? One of the explanations 
for this was that Florence was Sirius' sister, and Snape had been 
the one snogging her. OoPs - Sirius doesn't have a sister. But - 
wouldn't his "favourite cousin" Andromeda do just as well? 
Especially if the greasy little git got her knocked up (thus causing 
her to run out and marry the first Muggle she bumps into? Didn't 
sound like much of a charmer, Tonks' dad)? I think she's about the 
right age:
"He pointed to another burn mark between two names, Bellatrix and 
Narcissa." OoP, p105.
I think this must be slightly wrong, because Bellatrix, as we know 
from Sirius's comment in GoF (the one that I've quoted in at least 
four posts this week)is a relative contemporary of MWPP+S. Not 
necessarily in their year - HRH associate with Ginny and Luna, who 
are younger - but probably no more than one year either way, to make 
it a proper "gang". Narcissa Malfoy *surely* can't be popping sprogs 
younger than Lily - now that we know Lucius' age I'm inclined to put 
her at round about the same. Sirius would presumbably have covered 
her in the Slytherin list if she was their contemporary. Therefore 
Bella is actually the youngest, and Andromeda comes in somewhere in 
the middle - the family tree should read Narcissa, burn, Bellatrix. 
Andromeda could conceivably have shared a dormitory with Lily Evans. 
It is *possible*. And it would be a lovely JK irony, Tonks insisting 
on being known by a name that wasn't really hers.
With the "Perseus Evans" thing, that would make Tonks Harry's 
cousin, or a relative of some sort. Ah. Family. Just when you 
thought all hope was gone.

Ooh - also, when it comes to that big "what did the Potters do" 
question, I think we can rule out Aurors, can't we. They *died* when 
three years out of Hogwarts.

Kirstini, off to design some "Nymphadora Snape" t-shirts to flog at 
the Souvenir Shack. Oh, except then it would be "Nymphadora Evans". 
Hmm. Maybe more than one lovechild per series of books is overdoing 
it.

*Compared to someone like Melvin Burgess, who doesn't just stop at 
teen pregnancies.