[HPforGrownups] What happened to Snapes Mum and Dad?

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 149850

 Tonks  wrote:
>
> I don't think we have ever discussed this before.  Snape is a young
> man, his parents should still be alive. Where are they?  I get the
> impression that they are dead and that he is living in what was once
> their house.
>
> What happened to them? Did LV kill them? Did Bella?
>

Kemper now:
Bella seems surprised to learn the location of Snape's house.  So, if
Spinner's End was where Snape grew up, then I don't think Bella killed
them.  I also don't think she killed them because then she'd know that he
was a half-blood; a heritage she isn't fond of based on her reaction to
Harry telling her that Voldemort is a Half Blood and which, I think, we
would have heard some derogatory remarks against Snape if she knew
otherwise.


 Tonks continues:   Did Snape come
> home from Hogwarts to find his father abusing his mother and he
> couldn't take it any more. His father is a Muggle. Snape picked up the
> pure-blood ideology of Slytherin house. Is it possible that our dear
> beloved Snape has something in common with Tom Riddle?
>
> Thoughts anyone??
>

Kemper now:
On another thread Alla and Carol are discussing when/if Snape has AK'd
anyone prior to the tower.  If he has, I think it would be logical for Snape
to have used it on his father.  Violence starts at home.

Since Love is an on-going theme in the books, I think it possible for Snape,
who may have loved his mom so much, kill his dad.  The situation may have
been similar to Merope:

Eileen having lost her heart and her magic to an abusive man can do nothing
to defend herself from a particularly violent domestic abuse episode and so
died.  But Severus didn't find out until after graduation when he returned
home worried because his mom didn't show up.  He found her, dead for weeks,
and his dad in some drunken stupor.  Snape wept.  Crying for the loss of his
loving mom, he AK'd Tobias, who Snape no longer thought of as 'dad'.

So, Snape may have something in common with Tom who has something in common
with Harry who has something in common with Snape.  When will the triadic
cycle stop?!

Kemper,
who doesn't think Snape buys into the PureBlood ideology, but he hates the
Muggle part that created him.


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