[HPforGrownups] James & Snape: Related?

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> Charme:
> 
> Maybe what I'm about to say is "out there" but I think it might be worth
> considering? A lot of folks have focused on who the "Half Blood" prince is,
> and I think I might have a different context for that definition.  I'm
> specifically focused on James' comment to Lily in the Pensieve scene in OoP
> where Harry observes his father reply to Lily's inquiry why he curses Snape
> so, and he replies it's the fact "he *exists*, if you know what I mean."
> I've always found the context and way that sentence is written intriguing,
> and came across a definition that might explain why James disliked Snape so
> much (and vice versa.) 

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> I have always found the James/Snape relationship to remind me of Sirius'
> mindset when in OoP he's explaining the Black ancestry tapestry and he is
> defensive that he's not proud to be related to the infamous DE's in his
> family. 

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Amber:
Charme makes an excellent point here.  Since my second reading of OoP, I have 
wondered about the true nature of the relationship between James and Severus, 
or even Sirius and Severus.  In the same passage mentioned above, the boys 
both refer to Snape as "Snivellus." (OoP, Am Ed, pg 645, Snape's Worst Memory).  
Now, maybe this is just me and the people I know, but it sounds like the kind 
of name one comes up with at an age younger than the 11 year old first years 
at Hogwarts.  This sounds like a name my cousins who picked on me would give 
me.  Perhaps we do have a case of Severus Snape being related to one of James 
or Sirius (although I lean more toward James at this point given the 
introduction of the tapestry).  However, I do think there is a relationship of some 
blood here.  This would explain the animosity we feel before the werewolf 
incident.  And if James is from a line of Gryffindors, and Snape, his cousin, was 
placed in Slytherin which he seems to be against, then he is a blood traitor in 
reverse to the Weasleys situation.  

Amber,
who now folds the cloak of lurking back over herself and dips under the 
surface of the email flood, wading deep, deep to the bottom...


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