[HPforGrownups] Snape's Parents

[TrekkieGrrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 134725

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Hardenbrook" <DaveH47 at mindspring.com>


> 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?

Perhaps it is Snape's maternal grandfather, shouting at his daughter for 
marrying a Muggle?

I was very puzzled at this at first, too, but it makes sense if the man 
isn't Snape's father.

Of course if could also be that his father was an "Uncle Vernon" type of 
Muggle, but then again, why wasn't he turned into a yak? *G*

~Trekkie