Some (once private) thoughts on HBP/relationships/Snape's background

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" 
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wrote:
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>snip>

> Snape as DD progeny (1st or 2nd generation) or even, as I've 
suggested
> to you off-site, uncle-nephew (Aberforth taking centre-stage at 
last)
> does have a certain piquancy. Additionally, a 'mudblood' as Head of
> Slytherin House doesn't really compute, either.

Now Lyn:
I like playing up the Aberforth connection, but I don't think it 
would impact
Harry
sufficiently, nor cause DD to trust sufficiently, or even help 
explain Snape's
exceptional
talent. I do support your early supposition that he is most apt to be 
the Order
member to
take center stage. Aberforth surely can provide more DD history than 
anyone
else. Which
brings me to: "Who might inform Snape of his relationship to DD, if 
it were not
DD
himself" and I think it might likely be Aberforth. Also, who might DD 
have
shared a private
confidence with, and I think it might well have been his brother. 
Afterall, it
has been
revealed again that DD had a regular presence at (presumably) 
Aberforth's
establishment.

Snow:

Not that I have any objections to Aberforth but he does seem to cry 
for the position. My own thoughts quickly turned to one Alice 
Longbottom who we now know of being a member of the Order but have 
never truly been introduced to her. Alice as the key character can 
explain quite a bit about why she may have been tortured along with 
Snape info, which could be the reason why her and her husband had 
been tortured. 

Sirius told Peter that the deatheaters imprisoned in Azkaban were 
furious about the spy that turned traitor "I've heard them screaming 
all sorts of things in their sleep. Sounds like they think the double-
crosser double-crossed them. Voldemort went to the Potters' on your 
information..." Could it be that they were actually referencing 
Snape? Bella isn't all that quick to believe Snape at Spinners End so 
it could be very likely. 

It all fits for me but then sometimes I can be a bit delusional. 
Wait
does'nt being delusional entitle me to a button or flag or metal 
of some kind even though this isn't ship territory. 


Snow – wishing I could reply to many extremely interesting posts and 
subjects