Foreshadowing in OOTP for Snape the Spider...

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 136297

> >>Vmonte:
> <snip>
> The unpleasant spider-like instrument--could it be Snape?

Betsy Hp:
In a word? No. Or at least, not in my opinion.  For one thing, the 
spider instrument attacks immediately and is immediately destroyed.  
Certainly doesn't follow Snape's method of operation, whether you 
see him as good or evil.

> >>Vmonte:
> I like what Sirius uses to smash the spider. 

Betsy Hp:
That would be the book, "Nature's Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy" 
which sounds to be an ode to pure-bloodism.  If we follow the Snape 
equals the tweezers analogy doesn't that mean that Snape will be 
killed by someone who deeply believes in the pure-blood philosophy? 
(Are you suggesting that Snape is a good guy? *I ask with a wink*)

> >>Vmonte:
> What is the importance of Snape's HBP moniker? (Besides the fact  
> that it's creepy and sounds like something an evil overlord would 
> do.)

Betsy Hp:
Well, considering the fact that the term "half-blood" has *never* 
been used in a complimentary fashion *especially* among those who 
value blood purity, I imagine it means that Snape had a bit of a 
hard time of it.  Especially since his mother's maiden name, Prince, 
is added on to the end of the nickname.  So Snape was the red-headed 
step-child, the bastard son, the not quite right cousin.  He wasn't 
a pure-blood Prince, he was the half-blood, and as such was probably 
written out of wills and not invited to weddings and generally 
spoken of in whispers.  Not very evil overlordy at all, IMO.

> >>Vmonte: 
> Does Snape think that Voldemort's power as a wizard is due to the 
> fact that he had one muggle parent and one full blood parent? Is  
> Snape comparing himself to Riddle: "The Dark Lord?" Because this  
> super villain title then makes sense. 

Betsy Hp:
I suppose this depends on how much a very much *not* connected 
schoolboy would know about Lord Voldemort's past as Tom Riddle. 
(Remember, Snape had, and presumably labled, his potions book in his 
fifth year at the latest.)  I tend to think very little was known 
about Voldemort's past, since that is what Dumbledore tells us.  And 
since Voldemort *hated* his father's name.  And since Bellatrix went 
into minor melt down in OotP when Harry informed her that her great 
Lord was a disgusting little half-blood.

> >>Vmonte:
> <snip>
> The sinister music reminds me of the song Snape sang to cure Draco.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Which just goes to show how differently two people can read the same 
book.  I always thought of the phonix song, especially since Snape 
was healing Draco at the time.  (I wonder, did Snape invent the cure 
he used?  We've never seen Madam Pomfrey do the like.)

Betsy Hp