Where did he learn it all? (was Re: Severus's memories and schoolyard curses)
Tonks
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Sat Apr 1 05:13:15 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 150348
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> Carol:
> So while I don't deny an early interest in the Dark Arts on
Severus's part, rather odd on the part of a half-blood with a Muggle
father if that father had any part in his upbringing, (Snip)
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> kchuplis:
> Snape up to his eyebrows in dark arts has to indicate that Snape
had some kind of Dark Art knowledge beyond what most students had. I
just can't interpret that any other way. Since they don't teach it
at Hogwarts, I have to believe he learned it elsewhere. That is
canon.
>
Tonks:
I am starting to wonder where Snape learned these dark arts that he
is said to know at age 12. Before HBP I assumed him to be a pure-
blood and from a family of dark wizards. But now we find that his
father was a Muggle. That begs some questions to ponder. Was his
mother involved in the dark arts? Was she the battered woman we
think she was, or not? What sort of family were the Princes? Did
Snape know Bella as a child? Why do Snape and Bella have such a
tense relationship? Does this go back to before DE days?
Questions, questions, questions. Answers anyone??
Tonks_op
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