[HPforGrownups] OOP: Snivellus

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 63032

There are spoilers in here.  You have been warned.















I have read the thousand posts (or so it seems) on the Pensieve scene and
Snape's childhood in general.  One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the
name James and his group give to Snape:  Snivellus.  They call him this
repeatedly and ask him once if he's going to wipe his nose.  It makes me
wonder, how did he get this nickname?  Is he prone to colds?  Does he turn
his nose up at them and sniff?  Or did they see him cry once?  I wonder if
James did something to Snape once that made Snape think of his own father or
something and made him cry, and they have taunted him for this ever since.
Yes, that scenario is all speculation, but it does make one wonder why they
picked Snivellus as a term with which to taunt him.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova/