CoS & HBP (was I the HBP )(was Re: Snape's hidden plan?/)

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> Jen: <snip> Maybe Snape fashioned himself a 
> nickname and started inventing those spells because he even 
admired 
> LV, sort of hero worship. <snip>

I wonder, though, as a Death Eater or Death Eater to be, why Snape 
would have come up with a nickname obviously pointing out his half-
blood status when Slytherin House and LV (even though he is not 
pureblood, he followers seem to think he is)focus so much on the 
importance of being pureblood. Even Harry states "If he'd been a 
budding Death Eater he wouldn't have been boasting about being 
a 'half-blood,' would he?" However, at the end of the book, when he 
knows who the HBP is (particularly after witnessing him kill 
Dumbledore), he disregards this initial impression stating, "-- Lord 
Voldemort -- Half-Blood Prince -- How could Dumbledore have 
missed?..."

Perhaps the Prince family was Pureblood and Snape, perhaps having 
been looked down upon by the pureblood Prince family because of his 
half-blood status and/or mistreated by his Muggle father did invent 
this name to play up the Prince side of the family instead of his 
Muggle father's name of Snape...or perhaps someone else originally 
came up with this nickname as a way of trying to make Snape feel 
better about this..."You're a half-blood Prince!"...sounds almost a 
bit cutesy to me.

Cheryl