Why Half-Blood Prince? was: Snape's Parents

[lady_aidil]

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> Clio replied:
> >>[snip]
> What kind of person would write such a silly name in a school
> textbook, anyways? 
<SNIP>

> HunterGreen:
> Perhaps Snape didn't know being Half-Blood was something to be 
> ashamed of when he came up with the title. Its not long his mother 
> would have told him 'we're dirty half-bloods' when it was her that 
> married a muggle. But, I suppose even that is unlikely, because he 
> most likely heard it from somewhere. But if he came up with the 
nasme 
> at a young age, it could easily been before he became a proud 
> Slytherin pureblood enthusiast.
<SNIP>


I think it was his very personal textbook,kind of the spell and 
potion diary,not for eyes of anybody else,probably the name could 
have been a kind of self-mockery,I honestly doubt he said about it 
even his Slytherin pars,because IMO in the House of Snake beeing poor 
and half-blood was always a handicap,a social flaw,without doubt he 
was aware of this from the very beginning.The pompous name as the 
secret nick suits this rather pathetic teenager we saw in Pensieve in 
OOTP,he probably was inhibited and insecure.I don`t think the adult 
Snape thought about himself as HBD,what he said Harry it was rather 
confirmation of the fact-"yes it is me-HBD who wrote comments in the 
book". 
Lady Aidil