Irma Pince is Snape's mother in disguise? WAS: Re: Snape as having been loved.

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 137237

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
 sgwood01 <swood at c...> wrote:
> "Q: Have any of the Hogwarts professors had spouses?
> JKR: Good question - yes, a few of them, but that information is 
> sort of restricted - you'll find out why." (from Quick Quote Quills)
> 
> First, the question says 'had', rather than 'have' which suggests 
> that the spouses belong in the past, rather than the present. 
  

Juli wrote: Not necesarily. The question is in Present Perfect, so it 
has to have the "HAD", if it was "have", it'd be incorrect. This 
tense refers to something that begun in the past and is still going 
on, so it can be that they HAD spouses or they still HAVE them. I 
don't believe Argus Fitch (sp?) is Mr Tobias Snape... but Irma Prince 
could be Mrs Snape. We'll just have to wait 2 years and see!
 Juli ends..

Doddie here:

One cannot play the past tense game here as the books take place in 
the past.

I just had to add that I always wondered why on earth Filch would be 
bandaging Snapes leg in PS/SS....

After HBP and what Snape did to Malfoy after the Sectus. 
incident...It really makes no sense at all that Snape would search 
out "squib healing" after his fluffy injury..

However if Filch is "Snapes Daddy"...a whole other realm here...
(Hence Filch is constantly patroling third floor corridor...hence 
Snape may have wondered how the mauraders god around so well...and, 
after following them around for months if not years, perhaps he 
tipped off his father to confiscate EVERYTHING off the mauraders 
(even papers-parchment)--and like the twins, after they gave Harry 
the map..they(the marauders) no longer needed it so never went back 
to retrieve it.)

 I am off to read both Filch's and Snape's reaction to Mrs. Norris' 
petrification in COS...strange how fast Snape showed up on the scene 
in this so quickly in this one.  Strange how Filch sniffed out Harry 
in the library-- in PS/SS...uncanny how Leg. Occl.  Snape is always 
prowling the corridors the same time Filch is..(happened again in GOF)

Doddie
(who has wondered about many things in the series...but Snape 
accepting bandaging from Filch in book 1 makes very little sense in 
book six...more than a subtle clue IMO...the anvil left a massive 
lump..going to ice it now..)