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

[Lynx412 at AOL.com]

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In a message dated 8/4/2005 10:55:44 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
dimoffamily at centurytel.net writes:

> 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.

       I see it as a bit arrogant. Perhaps he was tagged with it as an insult 
along the lines of "Look, it's that Prince half-blood" or "that half-blood, 
Prince" and adopted it, as a slap to the Slytherin fanatics. It can't have been 
common outside his 'gang' because Lupin doesn't seem to recognize it. It 
isn't even a tag Lupin (whom JKR has listed as a half-blood himself) or, I 
suspect, the other Marauders would have used anyway. It is a bit odd, since his 
surname isn't Prince

The Other Cheryl


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