Snape as the HBP?

[tookishgirl_111]

No: HPFGUIDX 105309

Katie:
> I was just thinking about this. Consider:
>    1. Sirius says the pureblood families are all related.
>    2. But Snape is not mentioned as being on the tapestry.
>       (Wouldn't Harry have noticed if he was?)
>    3. We see a snippet of Snape's family background. I bet this 
>       comes up again.
>    4. There's something VERY important about Snape that JKR hasn't
>       told us.
> 
> Therefore: Snape is the HBP!


It's a possibility...we really know very little about Snape's 
heritage, except that he was most likely not related to the Black, 
Malfoy, or Weasley famlies (Snape was not named as being on the 
tapestry).  We know that he will become mmore important to the plot 
as HBP and Book7 come out, but we're still not entirely sure why and 
how?  We know that - according to his memory - as a child he was 
witness to verbal and emotional abuse, but we don't know why and how 
often it occured...was his father just a bastard who enjoyed 
tormenting his family, or was this a specific incidence in which a 
terrible fight occured?  Was Snape's father just a bastard, or was 
his rage justified and we simply are not allowed to see why?  

Tooks - who would not shoot down a valid possibilty, but instead 
breath life into it