XPOST: Lupin is Ever So Evil Part One -- The Prank (long)

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "fritter_my_wig" <eloiseherisson at a...> wrote:
> 
> AFAIC, Snape is a character in search of a father. Those particular 
> Pensieve memories accorded with what I already pretty much believed 
> about his back story, so yes, I do take them at face value. And I 
> believe the reason he knew all those curse was because he hated his 
> father so much and had been practising what he'd *like* to do to him.
> 

A thought has just struck me.
Has anyone explored the possibility that Voldy is Snapes father?
Now that'd be a turn-up for the books.
"Father, father! How can you be so cruel?"
"Practice, my boy; practice."
It'd explain why we know zero about Sevvy's antecedents, too.

Nothing against it so far as the time-line is concerned SFAIK.
Mm. Must browse through canon and search for unconsidered trifles
that may be pointers.

(Note to researchers in years to come - you may be witnessing the birth
of a theory - if no-one else thought of it first.)

Kneasy