[HPforGrownups] Re: Eileen Pince

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 156277

abergoat wrote:
> What about this: 
> In HBP, JKR told us Eileen was captain of a HOGWARTS team (delibrately
> avoiding her house) and this team was important enough to get in the
> Daily Prophet. The presence of a picture implies they were
> participating in an international competition (the Daily Prophet
> doesn't seem to be interested in Harry's quidditch captaincy - only
> his tri-wizard champion post). Doesn't this sound like a clue that the
> woman cowering in Snape's OoP memory was not Eileen? Why would a
> magical Eileen with the leadership skills to captain an international
> team cower in front of a MUGGLE husband? Seems unlikely. I bet JKR
> wanted us to question Harry's assumption that those people were
> Snape's parents rather than some other relatives. 
> 
> Abergoat

  KJ writes:

    I find this topic interesting as it kind of falls into my own 
theory. I am thinking that something happened to Snape's parents, or at 
least his father, and that he was raised by his Prince relatives.  To 
me, this makes it more likely that the name "Half-blood Prince" was used 
in a more derogatory manner. If he was raised by pure-blood 
grandparents, it could account for the number of curses he knew, 
indicating practice in a magical household, and his joining of the DE's. 
It would also explain the old, expensive books that are kept in what we 
are led to believe is his house. To me, his manner has always been 
portrayed more like Lucius Malfoy than like Gilderoy Lockheart, or even 
Arthur Weasley. It may be that his childhood has been much like Harry's 
and Voldemorte's. It may well play into Book 7 in a comparison of the 
choices made by each of these individuals. Perhaps Eileen is a hostage 
of some sort to Snape's good behaviour, or was killed as a punishment 
for bad behaviour. I tend to think that just because we have not been 
given any indication that she is alive, she may well turn up yet.

KJ