Eileen Prince

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 156262

Abergoat wrote: 
> What about this: 
> In HBP, JKR told us Eileen was captain of a HOGWARTS team (delibrately
> avoiding her house) and this team was important enough to get in the
> Daily Prophet. 

Potioncat:
Yes, it's clearly an international competition. It's between several un-
named schools--the usual suspects, I assume. So, we have the captain of 
the team at a big competition and she looks sullen.

That's strange. Why doesn't she look pleased? Did her team just lose? 
Did someone hex her? Who is there? What's going on that we don't see? 
Harry's too disinterested to say anything about the article itself. 

Gobstones isn't the most exciting of sports it seems. There was a 
ruckus about it not being covered once (I don't recall the source--a 
Wizards Card?) Yet everyone seems to play it and even Percy  has a set 
of gobstones.

Abergoat:
 Doesn't this sound like a clue that the
> woman cowering in Snape's OoP memory was not Eileen? Why would a
> magical Eileen with the leadership skills to captain an international
> team cower in front of a MUGGLE husband? Seems unlikely. 

Potioncat:
Well, from what little I know of RL, some of the most amazing people 
are victims of abuse. However, there is a large group of list members 
who think this shows it was not Eileen and Tobias in the memory. One 
strong theory is that it's Eileen and her father.

Harry does not identify the girl in the picture as the woman in Snape's 
memory. But that doesn't mean anything. This is Harry after all and the 
woman was about 15-20 years older.

Someone else has commented that all the books we saw in Spinner's End 
may have been Eileen's and she could have been a Ravenclaw. I think we 
see by the very fact that she still has her text books by the time 
Snape is 11 that she loves books. Snape wasn't born until she was in 
her mid/late 20s, so she had no real reason to keep them. 

There is so much we don't know and so much we assume or presume. I 
don't think it's a given that she was in Slytherin. In fact, I think 
it's unlikely she was. She had some reason to come into contact with 
Tobias and to get to know him well enough to fall in love--or to at 
least agree to marriage.

I do wish Hermione had said clearly to us how she knew Tobias was a 
Muggle.