Snape and DD

[lagattalucianese]

No: HPFGUIDX 147241

> 
> 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).
>
La Gatta Lucianese:

I agree. I would much rather see Dumbledore's trust in Snape based on 
respect for Snape as a person who has made some hard moral choices 
than on a tie of blood.

If we must have Snape related to someone, how about this: Eileen 
Prince was the senior Mrs. Potter's sister. James' mother made a 
respectable pure-blood marriage to James' father, but Eileen married a 
Muggle, Tobias Snape, and was disowned for it; her pure-blood family 
left her to live, raise her son, and die in poverty. James Potter and 
Snape are thus first cousins, and this relationship would account for 
much of the hostility between James and Snape, who regarded one 
another as trash relations and a spoiled rich boy, respectively, with 
the blood tie making the hatred even greater than it would otherwise 
be. (If you don't think it's possible for first cousins to hate each 
other like poison, boy, have I got news for you...) It might also 
explain why James, when push came to shove, risked Sirius' anger by 
saving Snape's life; blood is thicker than water. It would also 
explain why Snape hates Harry sight unseen; "...another Potter brat, 
just like my nasty cousin." Finally, it would explain why Dumbledore 
is so firm about Harry showing Snape the respect he deserves; when 
Harry finds out that Snape is all the family he has left in the world 
(and Harry wants family more than anything), it will help if there is 
not too much hostility on either side.