The worst is yet to come/Happy Families

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 80914

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, B Arrowsmith 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> Happy Families.
> Most listies assume the child is  Snape, the arguing adults his 
> parents. Being contrary, I think the man is Snape, the child and 
woman 
> his family. No matter. It is obviously an emotionally charged scene 
in 
> the oasis of calm and domestic felicity that is chez Snape. 
Probably 
> not an isolated incident, it's evidence that something was badly 
wrong, 
> an on-going festering sore. Very private. Keep off.


Veering of for a moment:
Yes, it's a possibility that "we've" got this wrong and what we're 
seeing is Severus' proving himseld a miserable family man. But for 2 
problems. It appears that the memories are appearing to Harry in 
chronological order.  Young child to teen. But that's not even my 
biggest problem with the idea of seeing this scene in the way you 
describe. My biggest problem is TIME.
How old would Severus have been when this cowering son of his was 
born? It's made quite clear that Harry sees a "little boy"--not a 
baby or toddler--but a crying little boy. Harry himself was what, 1.5 
when Voldemort met his match in him? And we all agree that James and 
Lily seemed to have started their family unusually young. 
Now there are those among us who see the adult, mysterious, gliding, 
honeytongued, he of the ironic bow, Severus as a stud-muffin but I'd 
have to say that even the most die-hard of us, given what we see of 
him at age 15/16 give him much hope of marriage/fatherhood at 18 
(give or take a year) in order to produce a "little boy" for Voldy to 
do away with prior to Snape's defection and his Voldy's subsequent 
demise.

Melpomene--wondering just *how* cruel JKR is planning to be to 
Severus.