Who is Perseus Evans?

[Kirstini]

No: HPFGUIDX 71353

Dublina:
> Was very intrigued about the anagram and did a bit of research on 
the name Perseus.  I found this:
Perseus is the son of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, and a mortal 
woman. 
 <<I found this bit interesting if we consider the Greek God to be a 
Wizard and the mortal woman to be a Muggle ie Tom Riddle.  Could 
Snape be Tom?>>
The woman's husband, Polydectes, king of Seriphos, was naturally 
angry, but when your wife has an affair with a god, what can you do?
<<Are we to assume that the pensive scene re. the woman cowering in 
the corner to be Snape's mother.  Even though I agree with some that 
state there is no mentioning of *names*??>>

Now me (Kirstini):
I don't think Snape  is Riddle (age difference for a start, also 
because I am officially closing my ears to any more time-turning 
Riddle theories), but your highlighting of the similarites got me 
thinking.
Interesting, all these characters disappointed with their fathers: 
Riddle, Crouch, now Percy and Harry too. If Snape is the boy in the 
Pensieve (and I do believe he is, despite all "crying Sirius fan" 
TBAYs to the contrary), that makes one more. There's got to be some 
sort of significance. 
 As to the "mortal"/Muggle mother question, this would make a lot of 
sense from the "Evans" standpoint, and could also help us out in 
that "filthy little mudblood" bit of the Pensieve. Snape has heard 
his father shouting abuse at his mother. He doesn't appear to have 
had a happy childhood. The worst insult that we know of in the WW 
is "Mudblood".If Snape's mother is a Muggle, or even Muggle-born 
(distant Evans relative?), then it's likely Daddy Snape would hurl 
that particular form of abuse at her, which is why Snape reacts 
similarly when Lily (unknown relative?) attempts to assume a similar 
sort of position between him and a tormentor that his mother may have 
done. It's a response to any sort of weakness, of the type he talks 
about to Harry in the first Occulemency lesson; it's also another 
version of that fantastically angsty term"externalised self-loathing" 
that we were batting about on list a wee while ago. 
I know that this would make Mummy Snape and not Daddy Snape the Evans 
(a problem for the patriachal lineage bit), but hey, she might have 
had a nifty way with crosswords when pregnant.  

Kirstini