Snape and Petunia/ Snape and Lily

[wynnleaf]

No: HPFGUIDX 155642

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "steven1965aaa" 
<steven1965aaa at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Szehms" <zehms@> wrote:
> > 
> > The reason the "awful boy" comment could be significant IMO is
> > because the Snape/ Lily connection rather than the Snape/Petunia
> > connection.If Snape came to the Evans home perhaps he and Lily 
were 
> closer than has been let on...NOT A LOVE CONNECTION...but a 
respectful 
> personalrelationship (keeping in mind how socially awkward Snape 
is I 
> mean personal in the loosest sense of the word).
> > 
> 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 ....
>

wynnleaf

JKR was asked, about the time OOTP came out, where Petunia had heard 
of dementors.  JKR said that Petunia overheard a conversation as 
mentioned in the beginning of OOTP.  But the even more interesting 
thing is that JKR also said, "The reason I am hesitant is because 
there is more to it than that. As I think you suspect. Correctly, 
but I don't want to say what else there is because it relates to 
book 7."

So Petunia overhearing a conversation of that "awful boy" mentioning 
dementors is significant for Book 7.  Hm, curiouser and curiouser, 
don't you think?  What could it matter to Book 7 if she overheard 
James?  Or even Sirius?  After all, it's no big news that Sirius 
might have talked with Lily and possibly even within the hearing of 
Petunia (James and Sirius visiting Lily, for example, or at the 
wedding).  But what *would* be revealing is if that "awful boy" were 
someone else -- someone who we wouldn't expect.  Someone like 
Snape?  

Anyway, there's more to guessing that Snape is that "awful boy" than 
the barest minimum in strict canon text.  JKR's comments lead us to 
that possibility as well.

wynnleaf