Snape and the Edinburgh Festival

[vmonte]

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Potioncat wrote:

Where are all the Snape foes? Where are all the Snape fans? Twice
in one interview JKR made a comment about not loving Snape. If she
keeps this up I might start to believe her! What do the rest of you
think? Are we to take it that he's really a horrible man who is
useful in the fight against LV...and nothing more?

And she's answered fairly closely a question that came up a while
ago, "How involved was he with the Death Eater activities?"
Of course it could be argued that she says, "he'll have seen
things that
"

But what I found interesting was the clue about his being a pure
blood. I took her answer to mean that he isn't Muggle-born, but
that one of his parents might be. (I'd vote for his mother.) Did
anyone else read it that way? It could just as easily mean that
yes, he is pure blood. But why not just say that?

vmonte responds:

I also found her comments about Snape to be very interesting. Have we 
really been given hints to his ancestry? (I'm going to have to look 
more carefully.)

What story did he give Dumbledore? And did he lie? 

You think he has a muggle parent like Tom Riddle? Or is he pureblood 
with vampire ancestry.  Maybe he is a decendant of Vlad the 
Impaler...haha