Snape's Parents

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No: HPFGUIDX 134784

In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com

Dave Hardenbrook (Message 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?


"Sharon" <azriona at j(Message 134724):

> I've always wondered about that scene.  Do we know for sure that 
>it's his parents at all?



"K":
I believe JKR is speaking through Harry at this point. I know Harry 
can be wrong at times (seldom, it now seems) but the author has to 
give us information in some fashion and the Pensieve and the 
reaction of Harry is one of those ways. 

~Harry did not speak; he felt that to say anything might be 
dangerous. He was sure had had just broken into Snape's memories, 
that he had just seen scenes from Snape's childhood, and it was 
unnerving to think that the crying little boy who had watched his 
parents shouting was actually standing in front of him with such 
loathing in his eyes

oop-ch 26-pg 592-scholastic

"K"