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

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 137258

"Rebecca Hoskins" wrote:

> That is a very good point! Especially when you consider the description 
> that is given of her (Irma Pince) on p 288 of HBP;
> "They waited and a moment later the vulture-like countenance of Madame 
> pince appeared round the corner, her shunken cheeks, her skin like 
> parchment and her long hooked nose illuminated unflattteringly by the 
> lamp she was carrying."


There is actually an almost parallell scen earlier in the book, this
time Snape being the one carrying the light.

"A lantern was bobbing at the distant [---] It was not until the
glowing yellow light was ten feet away [---]that he recognised
[---]the uplit hooked nose and long, black, greasy hair of Severus
Snape." (HBP p. 152)

Marika