Black Widower!Snape - repost from TOL (long)

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" <spotthedungbeetle at ...> wrote:
>
> Sorry for the delay.
> 
> I think this is as good as it's going to get:
> 
> Snape Caught Out With Lucius, Inauspicious Nippers Generate 
> Paranoia, Overlord's Temper Ignites Over News, Even Encouraged Regulus
> 
> S.C.O.W.L.I.N.G. P.O.T.I.O.N.E.E.R.

Cor!
Bet that took some skull work to construct!

> 
> > 
> > 1. The memory flash. 
> 
> Weelll
 is it? You're tied down to the timing of when Snape turned in 
> order to fix a date for the murders, but I'm not sure there's any 
> real canon about when Snape turned, so in principle you could place 
> the deaths of wife and child almost anywhere between the prophecy and 
> GH. Depending, again, on where you want to put the prophecy.
>  

You're right, there isn't canon for when Sevvy sees the light and joins
the Band of Hope. However, producing the Snape sproglet does impose 
quite severe time constraints... this generation is only about 4 years
out of Hogwarts at the time of GH. So into that gap we have to fit
prophecy, marriage, kid (not necessarily in that order), gap, Voldy 
doing the dirty, Sevvy joining DD and then GH.
Some people do lead eventful lives, don't they? 

In the original (based on the memory flash) Snape!Son must be at least
2 years old, calling for fast work from Sevvy. In yours his age when 
zapped isn't so critical - so you've a bit of built-in flexibility.

> > 2. Causes. 
> 
> Yep. Well, actually, one can think up any number of ways in which 
> Snape and/or the missus pissed Voldy off, and substitute them for any 
> of the three I put in my theory, but I very definitely need three 
> defiances, while you only need one. 
> 

Yes.
Those three defiances...

> > 3. Timeline. 
> 
> More or less. Worth noting that Snape defying Voldy three times will 
> antagonise the Dark Lord, even without being the father of a child 
> born at the appropriate time.
> 
> > Agreed?
> > Anything other basics that might make the headlines?
> 
> Don't think so. On to the implications?
>

Oh, yes.
Ready when you are, sunshine.

Kneasy