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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