The Prince and Filch Family Trees

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 156641

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "abergoat" <adescour at ...> wrote:
>
> Abergoat speculates:
> <big snip here>
> 
> The Family Trees
> <another big snip>
> 
> Wild? I don't know...it is supported by a number of canon tidbits. As
> I mentioned earlier it explains how Snape 'ran' with Belletrix
> Lestrange even though Bella was at least seven years older than
> Severus...Severus was at Hogwarts the entire time she went to school
> there. JKR is sticking our nose in the fact that Bella is
> significantly older than Snape - so old that one would think they
> didn't overlap. And this may be why Severus Snape chose Slytherin
> rather than his mother's house - Ravenclaw. Because Bella talked him
> into it.
> 
> As an added bonus it explains why James hated Severus Snape on first
> sight as canon tells us - Bella liked Severus and Sirius hated Bella.
> That would probably be enough for James. 
> 
> Just having fun speculating.

colebiancardi:

canon states that Regulus Black, brother to Sirius and cousins to
Bella and Narcissa(who then married into the Malfoy family), was in
the same house as Snape.  Regulus is a year or two younger than Snape.
 I think that is the connection on how Snape met Bella and the rest of
the DE's.  and since the members in your house are like your
"family"(again, canon), it might be that Snape & Regulus were like
brothers - and that would explain why Sirius hated Snape - because he
hated the dark side of his family.   Also, since Snape knew "more
hexes and curses" than most 7th years, that would explain why James
hated Snape at first sight - because James hates anything to do with
dark magic.

colebiancardi