OOP :Snape's family.... slight spoiler

[J]

No: HPFGUIDX 63911

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Joan P." <jhpravatiner at h...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Taryn Kimel" <amani at c...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > anyway - i was just wondering if anyone could tell me what was 
> snape's background... is he muggle born or pure blood? one would 
expect him to be a pure blood, but now i'm not so sure... and i don't 
remember the surname "snape" anywhere on the black's tapestry... 

I can't imagine him being muggle-born and then calling Lily a 
mudblood. --Taryn
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> I could, if he was indeed in Slytherin.  Many, many kids do crappy 
> things against their better judgment to fit in.  In the wizarding 
> world, that might include Snape trying to hide Muggle birth 
> desperately from other Slytherins and playing the game by 
> insulting "Mudbloods" like that in order to fit in and to pl;ay the 
> pureblood image.  Heck, hypothetically, there's also the fact that 
> you could learn to hate what you fear: he might hate his 
> hypothetical Muggle birth because it places him in danger in 
> Slytherin, grow to loathe and hate it, and in hating it, grow to 
> deny it within himself and mock it in anyone else.  After all, 
> happens in the real world too for those who are ashamed of their 
> background.  Some grow to deny it just that way. It would make 
sense.
> 
> Joan

Don't foget-- Voldemort had a muggle father and he is the figurehead 
of the purge of mudbloods and uses the term "mudblood" in CoS and 
maybe even GoF when speaking to Harry about Lily.

Arya