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

[ronnie]

No: HPFGUIDX 142195

 > > Marianne:
> > I hadn't thought of that, but I like the idea of Snape 
> > reinventing
> > himself, or, at least, taking steps to hide or improve his
> > background to fit with the norms of the people around him that he
> > met at Hogwarts.  I think this also fits in with his penchant of
> > referring to himself in the third person, which I commented on
> > earlier in this chapter discussion.  Maybe it's time to resurrect
> > the discussion of Insecure!Snape.


Expectopatronnie: 
Doesn't Snape's background remind you of VM? I mean: Spinners End
Vs. the manor in Little Hangleton (where the detached son comes for
refuge in times of need), the muggle father and the witch mother,
relatives coming from a very low socio-economic background...
Maybe Snape is reinventing himself just as Tom Riddle has? ('Who???
Is this Lord Voldemort???). So maybe it's not insecure!Snape but
Antisocial!Snape. A Snape calling himself HBP,ignoring and
metaphorically killing his muggle father by this. He wants nothing
to do with his past, nothing to do with the people who brought him 
up.Those tapes from the BBC are erasing his parents (or maybe just 
his father).

Harry, on the other hand, will have to come into terms with his
past(yes, including the Dursleys) if he wishes to develop into a 
mature and social human being.

>agdisney wrote:
>I've read where some think that Madam Pince could be Snape's
>mother. How about a thought that Filch could be his father? It's 
>stated that his father is a muggle - instead maybe a squib. When 
>Snape gets bitten by Fluffy in SS, he goes to Filch for help. Like 
>a child will go to a parent? If DD was trying to keep Snape's 
>parents safe from LV in the event that Snape gets caught, what 
>better place then Hogwarts? Also, they do go together to DD 
>funeral. Can this be?

Expectopatronnie:
I really fail to see the connection. Canon is that Snape's father 
was a Muggle and not a Squib. Furthermore, I don't think close 
phoenetics, such as in 'Pince' and 'Prince' suggest anything.  Even 
in the incedent with Mark Evans, the *Identical* surname meant 
nothing. 

Expectopatronnie - tired and going to sleep.