Connections Interview re: Snape (1999)

[laperchette]

No: HPFGUIDX 171618

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> Sue wrote:
> Just because no one generally desirable wouldn't want him, doesn't
> mean no one would. BTW.. remember when she said Snape Doesn't have
> a daughter? What about a son?
>
> Julie:
> I've always found that a rather interesting answer to the
> question posed ("Is Luna Lovegood Snape's daughter?") Saying
> Snape doesn't have a daughter could just have been a very
> direct way of answering the question, rather than the more
> likely answer to pop out of JKR's mouth (to me, anyway), "No,
> Snape doesn't have any children! Do you think I would do
> that to a child?!" Or something equally pithy. So a son is
> not definitively ruled out, but neither do we have any
> direct evidence that a son of Snape does or did exist.

laperchette:
I think this was a very odd answer! As if she wanted to create rumors and suspicions - perhaps she loves it too much to read fan-theories?

About the questions. Was there ever once this crazy idea going around that Luna could be related to Snape? There's nothing absolutly nothing, which would point in this direction! Not the looks, not the character, not the house, not the skills - nothing! I googled it and I couldn't find a reference older than Rowlings statement. Was she delibaretly giving a red herring? One no one asked her this question? But why in this direction? Or was there some crazy kid who hadn't read any Potter-book asking this? It's hardly believable...
Have you any ideas?