SWAN, was Re: Draco, Snape and Others: Castles in the air?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 124882


> Neri:
> OK, lets call this theory of yours simple!Snape (unless you 
have a more cool name, an acronym or so. It is the right of the 
originator tochoose the name for his theory). You say this theory 
misses only two puzzle pieces. Now lets have a tiny hypothetical 
exercise: I let you choose these two missing pieces any way you 
want to. Just inventwhatever you think would work. Put your two 
pieces of puzzle into place and answer these questions:


Pippin:
Oh, I can't resist. Besides, I've got a new theory. Snape was 
half-vampire, (okay that's not new) and he loves (wait for 
it)....Narcissa!  The *other* flower of Hogwarts. Let's call it  SWAN 
(Snape's Wild About Narcissa). 

This explains not only Neri's questions but darn near everything 
we don't know.

0. Why did Snape join  Bella's gang when in the pensieve scene 
he was a loner? 
  A. He was crazy about her sister, Cissy...

 1. Why DID Snape desert Voldy?
 ...but he knew she could only marry a pure blood wizard. Snape 
looked up to and idolized the purebloods. He  was easily 
recruited to the Dark Lord's camp.  Voldemort discovered 
Snape's vampire heritage and his dreams of wedding Narcissa. 
He persuaded Snape to  participate in a switching spell. 
Voldemort took another step on the road to immortality, Snape 
became fully human and (as he thought) fully pureblood. He 
went to the Black family and asked for Narcissa's 
hand. They laughed in his face, of course. Snape realized it 
wasn't about blood at all, it was about money and power  and the 
old boy network, and it always had been. Thoroughly 
disillusioned, Snape defected. He swore vengeance on 
Voldemort who had cynically used him (and whom he now 
learned wasn't even a pureblood blood) and on all the Blacks but 
one. 

Narcissa was packed off to marry Lucius. Snape resolved to 
wear his heart on his sleeve no more. He pretended he was all 
over Cissy,  and with his knowledge of poisons, ingratiated 
himself with Lucius, who has an interest in them.

> 2. Why does DD trust Snape to teach Potions but not DADA? 

A. Snape still has some vampish habits. DD knows that if Snape 
is teaching about vampires, somebody will put two and two 
together.


> 3. Why does Snape show his Dark Mark to Fudge in the end of 
GoF?

A. When Harry announces that Lucius is a DE, Snape is for a 
moment hopeful that Lucius will be sent to Azkaban and 
Narcissa will be free. Showing the mark was a last desperate 
attempt to convince Fudge.

> 4. Why is he ready to take a mission that, from his and DD's 
manner, is extremely dangerous? We are talking about a very 
nasty and bitter man, remember? And DD gives him a choice in 
the matter.
 
A. Revenge is very sweet. 

> 5. Why does Snape make "a sudden movement" when Harry 
tells Fudge that Lucius Malfoy is a DE?

see 3 above. 

> 6. In OotP both Sirius and Umbridge hint that Snape is in good 
terms with Lucius. Why does Lucius like Snape when Voldy 
seems to have made Snape a persona non grata?

See 1 above
  
> 7. Did Voldy agree to take Snape back? Why?

A. Voldemort thinks anyone who hates Lucius and has an in with 
Dumbledore is still useful 


> 8. Why does DD pick Snape, of all people, to teach Harry 
Occlumency when he knows about Snape hatred to James and 
Harry, and he still doesn't trust Snape to teach DADA?

A. See 1 and 2 above

> 
> 9. Why is Snape so emotional when he tells Harry in 
Occlumency that "those who carry their hearts on their sleeves 
stand no chance against the Dark Lord"?  

A. See 0 and 1 above

> 10. Why is Snape, after 20 years, still so emotional about 
some school grudges?    

A. See above. He really hates the Blacks. Won't eat in their 
house. He *told* James not to trust Sirius. James didn't listen, 
just like Harry doesn't listen now... 

> 11. JKR promised us a big revelation about Snape in Book 7. 
What would it be?

A. Being half vampire  and the key to Voldemort's immortality. 
The switching spell will have to be reversed before Voldie can 
die.

12. Why does Snape like Draco?
A. He thinks of him as the son who should have been his.

13. How did Voldemort survive Godric's Hollow, and how did 
Dumbledore *know* he would survive?

A. When he defected, Snape told Dumbledore about the 
switching spell, and Dumbledore, with his knowledge of 
transfiguration, realized that Voldemort would be able to survive 
an AK. (The Ministry has specially trained vampire slayers, which 
suggests that an ordinary AK won't do it.)

Neri:
> two pieces that explain all the above. I don't require them to be 
the TRUE pieces, only that they'll answer the questions 
reasonably well. If you can't find such two pieces, why is it so 
difficult? <

Pippin
Not difficult at all::SWAN dives into the Bay::