Spinner's End.

[eggplant107]

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"justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Most people seem to assume that because 
> Snape's father was a Muggle and the
> house is in a Muggle neighborhood that 
> it must be his childhood home.

I also assume it was Snape's childhood home because it seems the exact
sort of place a young Snape would grow up in, dingy, rather poor, and
in a Muggle neighborhood as befitting his Muggle father. I doubt JKR
will find a more colorful place.

> More hexes than most seventh years and he
learned them in a Muggle neighborhood 
> without detection 

It wouldn't be the ideal place to learn magic but Tom Riddle grew up
in a even worse environment and managed to learn some pretty
impressive magic on his own. I imagine most of the spells Snape knew
when he entered school were invented by him or at least discovered
independently by him; and he may have taken a peek at some of his
mother's old school books. 

Eggplant