Deatheater Snape

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 99656

"melclaros" <melclaros at y...> wrote:> > 
> > JKR is ALWAYS allowing/encouraging us to jump to wrong 
conclusions. 
> > That having been said I have to disagree with you on the identity 
> > of "the crying child". Severus himself simply did not have the 
TIME 
> > to conjure up a family. A wife MAYBE--although I seriously doubt 
it 
> > given the picture we have of him as late as 6th year and his 
> > presumed history immediately following his leaving Hogwarts. He 
> > certainly did *not* have time to produce a CHILD. A baby, maybe, 
> > perhaps even a Toddler, but even HARRY was only 15-18 mos old at 
the 
> > time of VD's downfall and we're told that Snape switched sides 
well 
> > before that. If the destruction of his family was his reason for 
> > changing, there had to be some Time-turner hanky-panky going on 
to 
> > accomplish it.
> > 
> > 
>Kneasy wrote:
> Actually, I was thinking about another sort of hanky-panky.
> Exactly what were Snape and Florence up to behind the greenhouses, 
hmm?
> 
> So far as I've been able to see, nobody has yet come up with firm
> time-lines for leaving school, marriages, births of children, etc. 
for the James, Lily generation.

Potioncat:
Not to be too frank here, but it wouldn't take Severus long to 
produce a child. Had he been the mother, some of the time frame would 
be in question.  He's off doing DE stuff while Florence is home 
throwing up.  He's working on long life potion while Florence is 
potty training.  

We're told Snape "rejoined" our side before LV's downfall...that 
could be years months weeks...you get the picture.  So the child 
could have been a toddler (a toddler is a small child) and wouldn't 
have had to be much older than Potter.  We don't know when the memory 
happened.


As far as the memory of Snape in 6th year (wasn't it 5th?) James 
changes a lot after that, Snape may have as well.  And it isn't until 
7th that James starts to date Lily.  

I'm not convinced that the memory is Snape and Florence or even of 
adult Snape and family. (I keep thinking of a younger Rickman in a 
BBC production of Romeo and Juliet from a very long time ago...My 
kids saw it and immediately said "It's Snape!")  So it is hard to 
think Harry wouldn't have recognised him.  But I also wouldn't put it 
past Jo.  I do think Snape will be one of the teachers who was/is 
married.
Potioncat