Where did he learn it all? (was Re: Severus's memories and schoolyard curses)

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 150378

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Adriana" <glykonix at ...> wrote:
>
> Glykonix:
> 
> I'm sorry zgirnius to shatter your idyllic image of Grandpa Prince 
> holding a job in some shady (Dark Arts connected) enterprise in 
> Knockturn Alley, and Grandma Prince cooking up potions at home in 
> her kitchen to supplement the household income.
> But Eileen herself was a half-blood. 

zgirnius:
Hermione did not research Eileen's blood status. Upon discovering 
there was a witch named Prince at Hogwarts at one point, Hermione 
hypothesized:
"No, listen! If, say, her father was a wizard whose surname was 
Prince, and her mother was Muggle, then that would make her a 'half-
blood Prince'!" (The Seer Overheard, HBP). (Note the 'If, say', not 
just the statement of a fact about her father and mother.)

In "The White Tomb" Harry and Hermione again discuss the HBP, when 
Hermione explains to Harry that Snape was Eileen Prince's son by a 
Muggle father. Harry suggests: "He's just like Voldemort. Pure-blood 
mother, Muggle father...ashamed of his parentage, (etc...)" Hermione 
neither agrees nor disagrees with this sentiment, which suggests to 
me she never researched Eileen's ancestry in more detail after the 
first scene, or she surely would have agreed/disagreed, as 
appropriate.

So I shall continue in my little idyll of working-class pureblood 
Princes with Dark Arts connections <g>...as you are free to believe 
your preferred fanfic. (At least until Book 7 messes it up for us!)