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

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Pip!Squeak 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.


Potioncat:

I want to quickly say that Carol is also convinced the man is Mr. 
Prince.

It's very hard to picture a Muggle screaming at a witch. So unless 
Tobias had Eileen under some sort of magical agreement (as is 
sometimes seen in real world folklore) I don't think it's Tobias 
either. But there are some impediments to its being Papa Prince.

The wedding and the child's birth were both announced in the "Daily 
Prophet". It doesn't look as if Eileen was in hiding or married in 
secret. It's been years! Why is he yelling now? Something must
have 
changed. So, perhaps either Tobias has died, or the Snape marriage 
has failed and Eileen wants to move back in with her young son, or 
something has happened to the Prince family.

Now, if Severus is the little Half Blood grandson and is one of many 
cousins, he could have been picked on. But if I'm correct, Eileen
was 
the only Prince that Hermione found at Hogwarts. Is she the last one? 
So does that make Snape the last of the Prince family? Did his 
grandfather resent his Muggle heritage? What do you suppose happened 
to make this little Half-blood so reject his Muggle side and dive so 
deeply into dark arts?

We have this timeline, based on OoP and HBP:

1. Eileen is captain of inter-school Gobstone team (looks 15)
2. Eileen marries Muggle Snape
3. Eileen has baby  (around 30 years old)
4. Screaming Man, Cowering Woman (neither described as to age or type 
of clothing)
5. Boy on bucking broom
6. ? Potions book with Half-Blood Prince  
7. ? Sullen teen kills flies  (Spinner's End?)  16 oe 17 
8. Snape uses Spinner's End for DE related work. Appears to live 
there. Wormy has a bedroom there.

My current guess is that Spinner's End is his father's home;
Eileen 
and Severus moved out; Snape was back at Spinner's End the summer 
between 5th and 6th years or between 6th and 7th years. (Fly killing) 
Was he visiting his father? Had his father died and left him the 
house?

But I still don't know why the man was yelling.


Theory two.
The man is Tobias. He was watching "Bewitched" and as usual,
Sevi 
came too close to the TV and the thing exploded. "Can't a
hardworking 
man even watch TV in peace?"



And a bit of real silliness:
(Tobias is the last name of the actor who played the kindly neighbor 
Mr. Kravitz on "Bewitched".)

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