James Potter =Voldemort

[A Featheringstonehaugh]

No: HPFGUIDX 81326



Message: 22
   Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:03:54 +1200
   From: Tanya Swaine <swaine.t at xtra.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Re: James Potter = Voldemort

AF wrote:
>Personally, I've long harbored the feeling that Snape is Harry's 
father.

Tanya wrote: 
>Now that would be a great twist.  What impressions in the books did you 
>come by that?  

Primarily because I really, really like Snape and would love it if both he and Harry found security and family. Ahhh!  Besides, I thought there had to be a bigger reason than an old schoolboy grudge against James to cause an adult and a professional to be so "hostile" toward an 11 year old kid whom he'd never met. (The quotes are because I believe the hostility is an act. ) From Day 1, Snape had his eye on Harry - why?  Curiosity about an old aquaintance's son would hardly be so overpowering and even if he'd been "in love" with Lily, if it had been limited to the teen years and unrequited, I can't see it being so intense that he'd turn it into hatred for a child.  (I'm not saying relationships that begin in the teen years can't endure but those that DO last, do so because they grow over the years, not because someone "loved" for a short time in adolescence. )  Then of course, there's the straight, black hair, thin build, something about the noses ( although I can't remember what) the
 lack of any info about Potter relatives or any apparent involvement  with Harry (what ... all the Potters died between the Hogwarts years when Sirius camped out with the Potters and when Harry was a year old? Possible, of course, but curious.). And finally, the vague little tidbit from the first pensive encounter, where the "I saw him kissing..." remark was introduced.  That had no bearing on anything else we've read so far, and I can't see JKR bothering to write it in if it wasn't going to be important. My vote for Snape kissing Lily has been cast.

As for Harry's response if Papa Severus comes to pass...oh dear.  Unless of course, by the time the truth is revealed, their relationship has evolved into one of more understanding and respect.  Harry is growing up, after all and he'll doubless outgrow some of his stubbonness and irrational attitudes about many things.  

AF



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