Connections Interview re: Snape (1999)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 171599


> JKR: Yeah? Who on earth would want Snape in love with 
> them, that is a very horrible idea. Erm ...

> houyhnhnm: 
> I 
> think it's got to be something creepy; something 
> that would turn *anyone* off.  If Snape is not a 
> vampire, maybe he is something else that is not 
> quite human.  I can't think what it would be, but 
> it would have to be yucky.  A human hooking up with 
> a giant is a little risque.  A human and a goblin 
> is downright kinky, IMO, but both of these pairings 
> are considered fairly normal in the WW.  What would 
> Snape have to be to be beyond the pale?

zgirnius:
I consider this to be of *very* low probability. Snape appears human; 
his father, a Muggle, was human. His mother, Eileen, also appears 
human. So, if Snape is part something else, that something else has 
previously mated with a human, and his "half-breed" ancestors have 
also mated with his human ancestors. 

Also, the idea that noone would want him to love them because he is 
a "half-breed" of some sort does not seem like an opinion Rowling 
would endorse - it is rather more the sort of position Umbridge might 
espouse.

I think the comment was a somewhat flippant remark based on Snape's 
personality. I, of course, and a convinced LOLLIPOPs believer...so 
this answer seems also a dodge of further discussion of Snape being 
in love with someone. And an honest one. If Snape was indeed in love 
with Lily Evans, it sure worked out badly for her.