Annoying interruptions... + Fawkes

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 142292

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "AyanEva" <ayaneva at a...> wrote:
> I'll give it a go! I might just convince myself of the plausibility of
> the following scenario if I keep this up. LOL :-D So, here goes:
> 
> Snape could've stayed in bird form until 1960; we'll call him
> "Snawkes." All of this could be a scheme by Dumbledore, of course,
> because Dumbledore didn't trust Riddle. Once Dumbledore saw that
> Riddle was turning bad for real, he had to come up with a plan to
> thwart Riddle and infiltrate his circle. At this point, Dumbledore
> pulled Eileen in on the plan to pretend to be Snawks' mother. At the
> appropriate time, determined by Dumbledore, Snawkes appears on the
> scene as 11 year old Snape. 
> 
> Since we haven't found a birth announcement Severus Snape yet (have
> we? I think it was just the marriage announcement), this *proves* that
> Snape as Snape didn't exist until he hit the Hogwarts scene at 11
> years old.

zgirnius:
Since you ask, yes, there was a birth announcement. It's in the last 
chapter of HBP (p. 637 US Edition). Hermione is describing her research:

"I was going through the rest of the old *Prophets* and there was a 
tiny announcement about Eileen Prince marrying a man called Tobias 
Snape, and then later an announcement saying she'd given birth to a-"
"-murderer," spat Harry.
"Well...yes," said Hermione.

(If the announcement had been of the birth of anyone other than a boy 
named Severus, I'm sure Hermione would have told Harry so...)