Dark Magic and Snape

[leslie41]

No: HPFGUIDX 161446

Sidney:


> I don't quite know where JKR is going with Snape and the pure-blood
> thing.  I think Harry was right the first time in thinking a Death
> Eater  would hardly be bragging about being a Half-Blood, so 
> there's something quite weird with the whole HBP moniker.  If I 
> had to come up with a theory I'd say it has something to do with 
> Lily and the Prank and possibly with the Princes and who they 
> were... I dunno, I don't think it's guessable what happened.  
> Personally I'm just as happy to wait for Book VII! 

Leslie:

Oh, I think the HBP thing is Snape all over! What Snape has done 
reminds me of what gays have done with the word "Queer".  He's 
reclaimed a derisive moniker and in doing so has empowered himself and 
rendered that word less capable of hurting him.  He's claimed it for 
his own. 

The idea that he's a half-blood AND a "prince/Prince" only reinforces 
this for me.