good and bad Slytherins

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 174983

 
> Hickengruendler wrote:
> > 
> > What about Mrs Tonks? Granted, she is a very minor character, but
> she married a Muggleborn, much to her family's displeasure. This 
> definitely shows some positive character traits.
> > 
> > Snape's mother, too, was a Slytherin, who in spite of any pureblood
>  biases in the house married a Muggleborn. Granted, it's hard to call
>  her admirable, since she seemed to have been a very phlegmatic woman,
>  who let herself bullied by her husband, in spite of the fact, that 
> she was the witch. (On the other hand, it does show, that she was 
> unwilling to use her powers against someone, who doesn't have them,
> which is a virtue Hagrid or the Weasley twins did not share).
> >
> Carol responds:
> Bullied? Can you show me the canon for that, please? I 

colebiancardi:


I believe Hickengruendler was referring to Eileen Snape, not Andromena
Tonks, in the case of being bullied.  Snape's parents seemed to be
always arguing and we have that scene in the Pensive where a man is
towering over a cowering woman - which I had always believed to be
Tobias Snape & Eileen Snape.  

colebiancardi