[HPforGrownups] Re: Of course Snape is a Slytherin

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 84845

yolandacarroll wrote:
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> 
> I'll now go back to Snape.  Everyone knows that
> he is whatever he is.  His Slytherin housemates
> would definately know who's pure and who's not. 
> So unlike Voldemort, Snape can't yell "mudblood"
> and hope people will think he's something else. 
> They already know what his real parentage is.
> 
> Yelling "mudblood" works for Voldemort, but not Snape.
> 
> Yolanda
> 
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Now you can explain HOW everyone would know who is pureblood and who is 
not?  Malfoy might be from a rich and famous family and people might 
know his family, but Snape appears to have been from a poor family. 
Poorer even then the Weasley's. People might not know his parentage well 
enough to even be sure.  Unless you are telling me that EVERY Slytherin 
child is a walking genealogy database and knows every single family down 
to the poorest hedgewitch in the outskirts of Scotland?  Do they walk 
around with little magic bloodline detectors?  No. If Snape told people 
he was pureblooded, even if he wasn't, would a bunch of school age kids 
bother to check?

There is also the chance that Snape was adopted and the Wizards who 
raised him never told anyone but him.  Hey, maybe finding out he was 
adopted and not a purebred after he graduated from school was part of 
what caused him to leave the DEs?  He might have shouted Mudblood as a 
kid, but have we seen him say anything like that as an adult?

Also. What would a wizard child of two Squibs be called?  Not a 
mudblood, which is the child with both parents muggles. Squibs are not 
defined as muggles.  Not a half-blood, since both squibs might have had 
magic parents.  Would explain why Snape seems to be on good terms with 
Filch if he had one or more Squibs as parents?

Jazmyn