Snape and Petunia/ Snape and Lily

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 155636

> Steven1965aaa:
> 
> I have speculated before, without having any canon basis whatsoever 
> (except that Snape's father was a muggle (from Hermione's reseach) 
who apparently made his wife cower (from pensieve, assuming that Snape 
was the boy in the memory and those were his parents) that Snape grew 
up in the muggle world and knew Lily from that time in his life.  Wild 
> speculation, I know, but what the heck ....
>

Tonks:

This is an interesting idea, except that I think Snape and Lily were 
from different social economic groups and may not have lived near each 
other or gone to the same school. So my guess is that they met at 
Hogwarts and were both members of the Slug club.

Tonks_op