[the_old_crowd] Re: Snape the Half-Blood Prince WAS RE: Page-filler Lupin

[Eileen Rebstock]

Alec wrote:
>Yes, that "is" an intriguing idea! But do you get the impression 
>from HBP that Snape ever had that degree of closeness with the much 
>older Bellatrix? He was always closer to Narcissa, it seems.

*frowns* Just because JKR forgets GoF canon, it doesn't mean you should
too! 

It's GoF, when Sirius Black reminisces about his school days to the
trio. Snape, he said, hung out with a "gang of Slytherins" who included
Rosier, Avery, Wilkes, and "the Lestranges - they're a married couple."
I mean, honestly. I didn't write that fic out of nowhere. 

No mention of Narcissa, which is very odd, given HBP. Perhaps Snape and
Narcissa became friends later? Narcissa *does* call him her husband's
old friend, which makes me wonder if they got to really know each other
after Narcissa's marriage and through the DE connection, even if they
were at Hogwarts together. 

Of course, JKR's timelines are so muddled it's rather difficult to
theorize about exactly when what was going on. 

>The "lily's handwriting" idea comes from Hermione's suggestion that 
>the handwriting in the diary looked like a woman's, the fact that 
>using the diary made Slughorn think of the way "Lily" made potions, 
>rather than Snape, and the probability that Snape and Lily had known 
>each other in the Slug club, and the possibility that Slughorn might 
>have paired his two star students together - he "did" try and make 
>connections among his proteges, didn't he? 

I see. I'm not convinced. Well, not about the handwriting bit, I mean.
I'm convinced that Snape loved Lily. The real problem with this theory
is not that it's shaky - a lot of my favourite theories are - but that
it really seems to make Snape into a wuss. Who makes their girlfriend
write all their notes for them? Honestly? 

Eileen