The Screaming Man WAS Re: Irma Pince is Snape's mother in disguise?

[ceridwennight]

No: HPFGUIDX 137415

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> 
wrote:
> How about: Screaming man is not Snape's father. It's his 
> *grandfather*, screaming at his mother. Screaming at her for 
> bringing this little half-blood into the family, to the shame of 
all 
> pure-blooded Prince's everywhere.

Ceridwen:
Oh, yes, the comeuppance for having been rebellious.

>Pip!Squeak:
> Remember Sirius's mother's portrait, talking about half-bloods 
> as 'half-breeds'? And yet Harry assumes that 'half-blood Prince' is 
> a grand sounding title. I don't think it is; not in the Prince 
> family, and not in Slytherin House. Suppose 'half-blood Prince' was 
> an insult that Snape was being defiant about? 

Ceridwen:
Harry does make a lot of assumptions.  Prince, sure, not knowing that 
it was a name until the end, could come off as arrigant.  But 
never 'half-blood'.  I think the (erroneous) idea of royalty eclipsed 
the slur.

>Pip!Squeak:
> The brilliant notes in this book belong to - the half-blood Prince. 
> That'll show everyone who calls me that!

Ceridwen (being absurd):
Yeah, you wanna piece of me?  ;)

Ceridwen.