Mozart!Wizard and other inane schooling ideas

[melclaros <melclaros@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52989

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nobodysrib <nobodysrib at y...>" 
<nobodysrib at y...> wrote:
> Has there ever been any speculation on why there aren't any young 
> geniuses running around Hogwarts, Doogie Howser style?  At first I 
> thought that this just wasn't plausible since Hermione, if anyone, 
> would go in that category...  however, picture this scenario:  a 
> witch and wizard ala Frasier and Lilith (from "Cheers" 
and "Frasier") 
> have a child who starts showing amazing abilities (along the line 
of 
> doing a patronus charm or becoming an animagi) at a very young 
> age.  Mozart!Wizard, in a way.  


Well you know...we have from GoF Amer hardback pg 531:
"Snape's always been fascinated by the Dark Arts, he was famous for 
it at school." <snip> "Snape new more curses when he arrived at 
school than half the kids in seventh year," &etc.  
Now after "Moody's" lessons in the "forbiddens" we know that these 
curses require a considerable amount of power behind them to be 
effective at all. He tells the class they could all stand together 
and try to direct one at him and they couldn't muster enough power to 
get it to work. Obvioulsy Littleboy!Snape wan't hurling Cruciatus 
curses around the dorms but what *was* he doing to warrant being 
called *famous* by someone who hates him? (As opposed to say "A 
bragging show-off" which even Sirius fans will admit might be more 
along the lines of how Sirius would be expected to describe Severus.)
was he demonstrating the Leg locker curse? I doubt it. 
We know Snape is highly intelligent and is presented as 
underappreciated. As a youth it seems he certainly felt this way, 
IMO, after "the prank" for sure. I have a niggling sense in the back 
of my brain that the reason he went DE was because he was desperate 
for recognition of his talents--recognition he knew he'd never get as 
apprentice potionsmaker after Hogwarts.
PLUS, I really like the idea of Severus' mom's name being Lilith. 
That just tickles me.