Half-Blood Prince

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 183776

---  "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
>
> > Potioncat:
> > For example I could imagine Sirius calling himself the 
> > "Black sheep of the family" and making that word play. I 
> > really can't see Severus doing it. ...
> 
> Zara:
> I can. Sirius would do it for fun, and as a rejection of 
> his family's views. He would expect James, Remus, and Peter 
> to get a good laugh out of it. 
> 
> I think Severus did it in earnest, and shared it with no one. 
> We know very little about his background, but we do know that
> for some reason, he wanted Slytherin House. ... he was still 
> as good as any of them. In spite of his father.
>

bboyminn:

Notice that Severus is the Half-Blood PRINCE, not the half-
blood Snape. I think this was Snape's way of acknowledging
that his father had contaminated his pureblood stream. 

In a way, he was mocking his father for what young Snape
considered a crime. And even if his Slytherin friends knew,
they too would view it as a crime against Severus over which
he had no control. 

I've always thought that Voldemort took a similar approach.
Not so much denying his heritage, as holding it up as a
criminal perversion and contamination of the pure blood of
Salazar Slytherin. A crime of which he personally had no
control. 

Just a thought.

Steve/bluewizard