What's in the Box? - Eileen Prince

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 177219

--- "potioncat" <willsonkmom...> wrote:
>
> 
> Imagine ... a huge rather battered box ... "This is for you," 
> 
> You open the box ... neatly written notes ... typed manuscript 
> ... a collection of written, but rejected moments from 
> DH. (And, OK, maybe from the other 6 books too.)
> 
> ... What event ... is one you'd like to read? 

Aussie:

Eileen Prince !

JKR held onto that bit of Snape's history for 6 books. In 
interviews, she toyed with bringing out Eileen's book during CS, but 
waited until HBP.

Then Eileen's name only got a mention a handful of times. She was so 
important to Severus that he called himself HBP. 

So what was Eileen's history. I know JKR would have loved to tell 
us, but that subplot may have eclipsed some Hallows story line.

- Eileen went to school at the same time as Tom Riddle
- Eileen may have been in Slytherin with Tom
- Hermione couldn't find any other wizarding family called "Prince" -
- Was she muggle-born or from wizard lineage?

SUGGESTION:
If Star Wars had not already had Luke and Leia as twins seperated 
from birth, JKR may have not left Eileen's history in the box.

Her face, cowering from her man and potion-making ability sounds 
like Merope Gaunt, Tom Riddle's mother.

What if Merope had twins, but the Prince family adopted baby Eileen. 
The Orphanage was scared of Tom, so never mentioned he had a sister.

They would get Hogwarts letters at the same time and go to school 
not knowing each other (unless Eileen inherited a photo of her 
father when she was adopted).

That would also explain how Snape was so good at things like his 
Uncle Tom Riddle (Legilimency, knowing more Dark Arts than 
Dumbledore, knowing cuses before coming to Hogwarts, flying without 
a broom, looking Voldemort in the face when no-one else could, 
creating curses ...)

Luckily, Harry didn't know if this was true either, or his son 
Albus, may have had a different middle name.

Aussie