Snape and DD
lolita_ns
lolita_ns at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 25 18:30:09 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 147030
> Tonks <tonks_op at y...> wrote: Here is an interesting idea. I
wonder if Snape is related to DD in
> someway.
JKR has said that she told us nothing about DD's family for a
> reason and that if we explored his family line we might find
something
> of interest.
Lolita:
I don't think so. She has enough on Snape already without making him
DD's great-great-grandson. Besides, I think that DD's trusting Snape
without additional familial relationship between the two is a far
stronger argument in favour of both of them than if they were somehow
related to each other. (I would take someone's undying trust in their
grandson as more biased than their undying trust in a person who's
not a part of their family). DD's vouch for Snape after LV's fall, in
the first place, would have been taken with a pinch of salt, no
matter what the Ministry officials' view of DD had been, if Snape was
his grandson. And I don't think that such information would have or
could have been kept secret - anyone can finecomb old Prophets and
find information on people who got married and the children who were
born to them. Also, *someone* would have mentioned it after the
murder of DD that he was murdered by his own flesh and blood, if that
had been the case. And no one says anything to that regard - not only
the staff at Hogwarts, but the Ministry and the Daily Prophet as
well. I can only think of one reason why - there is no such
connection between DD and SS.
Also, Hermione looked up Eileen Prince and didn't encounter any
information about EP being a descendant of DD. Such information, I
repeat, would hardly be classified, so I would presume that the
reason why Hermione didn't find it was because the families weren't
connected. You just know that Hermione would do her job well - she
managed to find records of EP's marriage and childbirth - in decades-
old newpapers. And she found no evidence on EP being related to DD.
A lot of people are constantly looking for DD's descendant in the
series (e.g. Harry, before Rowling debunked it). But, from what has
been shown to us in books as well as in interviews, it is more likely
that DD was a loner. He doesn't seem like a type who would have
settled down with a wife and had any children, grandchildren, etc,
even if the alleged marriage happened as far back in the past as a
hundred years ago.
As far as DD's family being a profitable line of inquiery is
concerned, I would combine that statement with the one where Rowling
said that we wouldn't be introduced to any new characters of
importance, but that we would meet an Order member whom we haven't
yet met properly. I think that both of these statements point to
Aberforth Dumbledore, who has yet to give us *his* version of the
events that took place in the night of the Prophecy.
> Luckdragon:
> Canon tells us that all pureblood wizarding families are inter-
related, so there must be a relationship of some kind.
Lolita:
Actually, we don't know that the Prince family was pureblood. That is
something Harry presumes, while he's looking for the parallels
between Snape and LV, but the actual text says nothing about it.
This post has turned out to be more a reply to Tonks's than to yours,
but... Oh, well.
Cheers,
Lolita.
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