[HPforGrownups] Re: Reason Dumbledore trusted Snape

[Kamil]

No: HPFGUIDX 171644

<navyhelm>

I have not read all of the messages posted so forgive me if
this was brought up before now but I wonder why the idea of
Eileen Prince being Snape's mom is mentioned. I too think Snape
is a horrible man but I love him for being so mean. But, if my
calculations are correct, based upon the Chamber of Secrets with
the diary, then Voldemort had to be in school with Eileen Prince
since the HBP also listed the date of the DADA book from the HBP
to be 50 yrs prior.
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<Jessica>
I have also thought long and hard about how Eileen Prince fits
 into the picture. I have even entered the thought that she may
have become pregnant to Tom Riddle. So, Snape could be his son.
In my theory she was too afraid to tell Tom that she was pregnant
so she marries a muggle out of desperation who isn't nice to her.
So, Dumbledore finds out about it later and reveals this to Snape.
When Snape finds out whatever circumstances this happened under,
he hates Voldemort and turns to the good side. This could be
Dumbldore's powerful motive for believing Snape. Also explains
Snape's very powerful magical ability.

Crazy theory, I know.


<Kamil>
Luke, I am your father.

Oy.

That snarked I would almost prefer something like that to the so-far
stated reason for Snape's supposed change of sides, because I do not
believe that he would care what happened to James Potter under any
circumstances.

Let me restate that: if that ends up being the sole/most important
reason, then yes, of course I'll believe it, because Jo tells me to in
the text. But I won't like it. At all. If that is the very worst
memory of Snape's life, then he's had a damned easy life. There simply
must be a more compelling reason (assuming he's actually returned to
the right side, of course), I can't imagine JKR will leave it as it
stands now.

But if Tommy took forceful advantage of Eileen after she'd turned him
down, or seduced her once and then never looked at her again, or
however JKR sees fit to write it and Snape was the result, that might
be a good twist. Especially if Lord Thingy found out about Snape at a
later date and came after Eileen. He might have killed her for keeping
the information from him, or perhaps she turned into one of the first
gen 'they can't kill you if they think you are already dead' war
refugees and has been intimidating students in her library for all the
long years since.

And if Snape was a mamma's boy and his adored mother is killed/almost
killed by the man he's been so faithfully serving . . . yeah, he'd
feel pretty damn betrayed and more than just a little angry. Enough to
switch sides certainly.

Either way would be a much more palatable reason for Snape's return to
me. And I can see where Dumbledore might have decided that the sordid
details weren't really anyone else's business.

But actually I don't really care what the reason is, so long as there
is a much more believable reason offered. Because the one we have
right now really isn't working for me. And so long as that is the only
reason on the table, I find myself unable to believe in Snape's return
to the side of the angels.

Kamil