Still More Snape

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 184984

Cat wrote in <http://groups.ahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184957>:

<< Secondly, if my maths are correct, he was a Death Eater for at
least two years. During that time, it's hard to imagine that he wasn't
involved with some really nasty, terrible things. I suppose it was
just a decision on JKR's part to limit what we learn about that
chapter of his life, but I'd think that some of those memories would
remain with Severus as far worse than anything he ever experienced at
Hogwarts. >>

Welcome to the conversation, Cat. Other than that, this is a forbidden
'I agree' reply.

Potioncat wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184967>:

<< Had Lily lived, Severus would have gotten over her. >>

You can't count on that. This is a book, Rowling is a romantic author,
and Snape is obsessive and good at perceiving only what he wants to
perceive (e.g. Harry as a James-like bully).

Montavilla47 wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184974>:

<< I like to think so. Because, frankly, he could have done *much*
better. >>

Could he? I'm not suggesting he would be unpopular, but it seems to me
that there aren't many witches in canon of whom readers think well;
all I can think of is Luna. Maybe witches *much* better than Lily
don't exist.

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Lots of people mentioning similarities between Sirius and Severus,
altho' not concentrating their similarities of appearance. I've always
liked the idea (I read it on list, rather than thinking it up myself)
that Sirius and Severus were half-brothers. I elaborated the theory:

Poor Eileen married a Muggle because she 'had to get married' and all
wizards warded off her Love Potions and Confundus Charms. You'd think
that her Love Potions would have been good enough to entrap a Muggle
who had a little more money, if not a kinder and more sober one.

Severus and Sirius knew about each other because when they were around
5, Eileen took little Sevvie with her to beg Sirius's father to give
her enough money to live separately from the Muggle. Sirius's father
refused to acknowledge the child and said sarcastic things about
Eileen trying to pass off her Half-Blood as a wizarding bastard, nasty
enough things that little Sevvie started to cry. Little Siri saw all
this and taunted that child by calling him Snivellus. So there was an
undercurrent, not stated in canon, when Sirius and Severus noticed
(recognized each other) that they were seated in the same compartment
of the Hogwarts Express.