Snape's Parents

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 134721

Okay -- We now know that Snape's father was a Muggle and his mum was
Captain of the Hogwarts Gobstones Team.  So why in Snape's memory
(_OOP_, Am. Ed., top of P. 592) is she cowering while her Muggle
husband shouts at her (as opposed to turning the domineering git into
a yak)?  Is it possibly Tom and Merope redux, and Snape Sr.
is about to desert the family?  Or are these not the people we
assume they are?

-- 
Dave