thoughts on Snape and those horseducks

[quigonginger]

SPOILERS

MY COUSIN JAN IS SO MAD AT HER KID.  

HE GOT TO READ THE BOOK FIRST.

AND HE LET IT SLIP WHICH 

CHARACTER DIED.

HOOOOOBOY- COLD GRITS FOR HIM FOR A WEEK!


3 thoughts here:

1) Snape remembers a small boy crying and a man with a hooked nose 
yelling at a cowering woman.  Kneasy's Snape!Son theory seems to have 
gotten a boost, but........

Pippin (gosh, that was a while ago, I hope it was you) asked why a 
witch would be cowering at a Muggle.  I just figured that Pippin 
wasn't the cowering type and wouldn't understand, but then I got to 
thinking.  

Hmm.  Wouldn't Harry have specified if the man with the hooked nose 
were wearing Muggle clothes?  Toby Snape, as a Muggle wouldn't be 
wearing Wizard clothes.  Maybe Eileen is being yelled at by her 
father.  Sevvie gets the hooked nose from Grandpa Prince.  Maybe 
Eileen disgraced the family by marrying a Muggle, and then he left 
her.  Papa came and yelled at her for bringing shame on the family, 
and Snape gets his anti-Muggle attitude the same way LV did.  It 
would certainly explain why he used his mother's name for his 
nickname.  Didn't want to be associated with Dad.  Like LV.

Thoughts?

2)  Herm says that the handwriting looks like a girl's.  The book is 
50 years old.  Maybe Eileen wrote the potion stuff in it, which is 
why they don't recognize the handwriting.  Perhaps Snape added in the 
spells and to whom the book belongs.  They could have very similar 
handwriting, which, since it is small and cramped makes it hard to 
distinguish.  My dad and I have very similar handwriting, which is 
why we both print.  No one can read it.

3)  If LV discovers that some of his horcruxes are destroyed (he 
certainly knows about the diary-he gave LM hell for it) what is to 
stop him from making more?  He is a pretty accomplished murderer.  
All he'd have to do is pop into 98-year-old Muggle Mildred Peabody's 
apartment, AK her (poor gal, high cholesterol), nick her toenail 
clippers, make a horcrux and POOF!  He's got a new horcrux and a new 
set of toenail clippers to boot.  Not bad for a day's work.  And no 
one would know.  

Yes, he is a creature of habit, but desperate times call for 
desperate measures.  And who can refuse free toenail clippers?

Ginger, extending condolences to Richard as well.