Black Widower!Snape - repost from TOL (long)

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at ...> wrote:

Pondering response from Dungrollin.
Hmm.
Yes, best to start at the end, I think.

>
> I don't think it's necessary that the memory flash was of Snape!son,
> either, in fact, I'm sticking with my original version of the theory.
> Was just trying to point out that it could be tweaked to make you
> happy.
>

That's nice. Not many posters would consider 'let's make Kneasy 
happy' as a  worth-while investment of their time and effort. Still, 
there was a point to the prodding to try and find a congruence 
between your ideas and the old Snape!Son, even though you may 
have found the old fool a bit irritating.

'Cos what we have here (as we both suspected and is now shown
pretty convincingly) isn't an extension of the old idea, it's a variation.
Would have been fun if they could have complemented each other, 
but I don't think they do - they simply overlap at interesting points. 

The Blackwidower bit is (in principle) accepted as fundamental to both.
As is Snape!Son to a large extent, but there're critical dividers.

1. The memory flash. The fons et origo of the old one, but inessential
in yours. And I have to admit (lean a bit closer so that no-one else 
can hear), that flash is a damn slender thread to hang a theory on - 
but I like it. Also, not tying your theory to a tight time-window allows 
for more flexibilty if bits of surfacing canon mean adjustments are 
needed. Very difficult to do with the old one.

2. Causes. More or less the opposite situation to that above.
Yours is bound to Voldy and his fears about and interpretations of the 
Prophecy. The old one is much looser, with more than one possibility: 
Snape and/or missus does something, sometime that pisses Voldy off 
causing a drastic reaction; or the wife and veg aren't specifically targeted,
but Sevvy holds Voldy responsible for their (unnecessary?) demise.

3. Timeline. Yours postulates that it's the timing of Snape!Son's birth
close to "as the seventh month dies" that is the trigger. In the old one
Snape!Son is born and then the eventual zapping is sufficiently previous
to GH to allow Sevvy to join DD months before that event.

Agreed?
Anything other basics that might make the headlines?

Now, first thing - as is traditional, the discoverer of a new species 
gets to  name it, so that we and anyone else who's interested will be 
able to refer to each without possible confusion with the other.

Thoughts?

Kneasy