[HPforGrownups] Lapdogs?? (wasRe: re:Ages/)

[Jessica Bathurst]

No: HPFGUIDX 140557

Potioncat:
>So, the relationship with the gang had to happen before Snape's last two 
>years; all of the ones we know the ages for would have finished earlier.

Ack!  Forgot the other part from GoF.  And that's why I shouldn't post at 
work.  So much for that idea.

>  Now, I suddenly read that passage differently. I always read it as "he 
>arrived knowing" and  later "he was part of" But what if he arrived knowing 
>more curses and was already a part of a  gang? Maybe someone here is a 
>Prince cousin? A an older cousin who refers to
>  ickle Sevvie as the "Half-blood Prince"?

Interesting - that clears up the problem with the age differences between 
the older members and Snape.  It also might explain why, five years into 
school, there are no Slytherins around "ickle Sevvie" when he's flying at 
full mast.  Once the older (scarier?) relative departed, no one would be 
under any obligation to stand up for Snape.  I think a relative would be a 
lot more tolerant of whining from a first-year than, say, Lucius Malfoy, 
which may be where the nickname "Snivellus" comes in.  (Although "Half-Blood 
Prince" sounds so much like a bad IRC name that I just can't believe Snape 
didn't make it up himself.)

>Potioncat, who really posted this time to correct the error in the subject 
>line.

I thought "lagdogs" was a clever pun combining "lapdogs" and "fags" (the 
British schoolboy kind, not the gay kind).  Seriously.

Yours,
Jessica