The Mauraders' Generation -- no parents

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 123712


Carol earlier:
> > While we're at it, why not add Snape to the list? (I know, I know!
His dad was a DE killed by the aurors and his mother's in St. Mungo's
in the closed ward, having been partially turned into a dog by her
evil husband. Well, that's my half-baked theory, anyway.)
> 
> LisaMarie:
> Oh, yes, I forgot to list dear Severus, didn't I?  How horrible of
me; and I call myself a Snape-lover! Hmph!  <g>
> 
> Your theory is interesting; I never thought of Sevie's dad as a DE;
I figured he was just another Dark wizard, rather like the Black
family. <snip>  I'd like to know where the dog bit came from!  :)

Carol responds:
Well, of course I was only half-serious in my post, but the dog-faced
woman is Agnes, whom HRH see briefly, along with Bode, Alice
Longbottom,  and Lockhart in the closed ward of St. Mungo's. The
Healer tells Agnes that her son will be visiting her that evening
(it's Christmas). Someone on this list came up with the idea that the
son is Snape, who shows up at 12 GP to tell Harry about Occlumency
soon afterwards. Turns out that the timeframe isn't exactly
right--it's well after Christmas when Snape arrives at GP in his
traveling cloak--but a week's time difference doesn't eliminate the
possibility that he could also have been visiting his, erm, ailing
mother at Christmas (an uncomfortable secret for Sevvie to be hiding
and one he wouldn't want his students to know about, I'm sure--not the
visit per se, but his mother's condition). It just seems odd that JKR
would have mentioned Agnes the dog-faced woman and her son if they
weren't going to reappear in the story--one of the little hints she
likes to drop, like Hagrid borrowing the flying motorcycle from "young
Sirius Black." An Snape is a perfect candidate for an adult son whose
parents we know little about.

As for Snape's father being a DE and responsible for his mother's
condition, that's wild speculation bordering on fanfic on my part,
with no basis in canon beyond the raging father and crying mother in
Snape's memory.

Carol, wondering whether the little crying Severus in the memory loved
his mother and guessing that he did

Carol