Re; Re: Is Snape a pureblood?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 89703

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sawsan_issa" <sawsan_issa at e...>
wrote:
> Hitomi wrote:
> Ok, I don't know about all that :) But I do actually think Snape is
> more than likely a pure-blood, he did refer to Lily as a "mudblood,"
> neh? And he was in Slytherin, and they seem to be mostly pure-
> blood. Though there is still the possiblity Snape was just being
> hypocritical.
> 
> Sawsan here:
> Well if we remember back to OotP at Grimmauld Place, the Black
> ancestry listed the pureblood families who intermarried. No one
> mentioned Snape's name while observing it, which leads me to believe
> that he is not a pure blood. Most likely if the snape family is
> pureblood, their name would be up there and someone would have pointed
> it out, being that Snape is really disliked by Harry and Sirius. 
> 
> Also, in the piensive scene, when Snape calls Lily a mudblood, she
> seemed to take it like, ' I know YOUR not talking'. At least that's
> the way I read it.
> 
> SO i do not think Snape is a pureblood, but still is very
Slytherinish :P


The tapestry has to be incredibly detailed. Even going back three
generations, to Sirius's great grandparents, you'd have four couples
(eight people). Another generation back would be sixteen great great
grandparents. Sirius and Harry were only looking at the last two
generations (their own)--if a twenty-year age difference even
constitutes a generation in the WW. If we (the readers) had been
allowed to look into the wizarding genealogy that was mentioned as
lying nearby, I'm pretty sure that we would have found the Snape
family mentioned (and possibly the Potters as well). Sirius, unlike
his mother, had no interest in his pureblood relationships except as
they affected his relationship with his cousins Bellatrix, Andromeda,
and Narcissa and their respective husbands and children, and of course
with the Weasleys. He could easily be related to Snape and not even
know it.

Carol