Snape's Speech patterns (was CHAPDISC: HBP 2, Spinner's End)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 142163

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> Potioncat:
> Ya'll thanks he tawks diff'rent 'round Filch?
> 
> Erm, excuse me. I just finished talking to my brother back home in 
> South Carolina.
> 
> Could you be more specific? I just went back to SS/PS and to GoF, but 
> I don't see (hear) the difference. He does swear around Filch, but 
> that may be the editors allowing him to actually use the word when no 
> students are around.

Oi'm not tryin' ter turn 'im inter Stan Shunpike, who also knows two vocal styles.  But there 
is a coarseness to 'Blasted thing. How are you supposed to keep your eyes on all three 
heads at once' , 'Just shove a bezoar down their throats' ' a stream of mixed swear words 
and hexes' and 'I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her' which is quite 
different from the rhetorical flourishes of 'the subtle science and exact art'  or 'the magical 
defense of the mind against external penetration'  and makes me think that Snape's 
parents didn't habitually express themselves in double alliterative phrases.

He does speak in his high-falutin' style 'I seal my office with a spell'  to Filch in GoF, but 
does he really think they are alone? He's looking for a prowler already, he knows all about 
Harry's invisibility cloak, Filch has the egg, and  of course Snape would know where the 
trick step is.

If Filch *is* Snape's father, that would mean that the hook-nosed man in the pensieve is 
someone else. We do see Filch standing next to Irma Pince at Dumbledore's funeral, and 
then there's that bit about it's classified information whether any of the teachers are 
married. Hmmm.

Pippin