Lupin's character development and why Snape's pseudonym?

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 135724

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lindseyharrisst" 
<lindseyharrisst at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> > In "the Order of the Phoenix", I believe it was chapter 37 "The 
> > Lost Prophesy", DD says to Harry "I trust Severus Snape". 
In "the 
> Half-Blood Prince" Snape boasts to Bellatrix and 
Narcissa: "Dumbledore 
> > > trusts Severus Snape". 
> 
> I think it's just to emphasise that he does not regard the him who 
is 
> trusted by snape as the real him. He may do, but obviously doesn't 
> want Bella to see that. It's a method of stresseing that he has 
> compartmentalised his life and that he is "loyal" to LV, IMO. 
Either 
> that or he's turned into one of those irriatting ipie types who 
always 
> talk about themselves like that. "I really want to discover who 
the 
> real snapesangel is, man" etc. If in the next book he goes off to 
> nicaragua to swim withthe porpoise or soemthing, we'll know, lol.
> 
> Snapesangel

The point could be made that Snapie doesn't consider 
himself "Severus Snape" but the Half-Blood Prince. The term Prince, 
of course, implies there is a King or Queen still living--which I 
suppose there could have been when Snape wrote the name on his 
Advanced Potions book. Tom Marvolo Riddle changed his name to (I Am) 
Lord Voldemort, which makes all the sense in the world for an ego 
like his.  I'm sure there is more to this than Snape just having 
delusions of grandeur or just making up a play on words with his 
mother's maiden name, unless he is lying about being the Half-Blood 
Prince to throw Harry off and we still won't know the true identity 
until book seven.