Snobby Snape?

[pippin_999]

Judy:
> 
> As for why Snape didn't receive any academic recognition (I wonder 
> just how many Headmasters never even made prefect when they were 
> students?), I see this lack of recognition as resulting from the 
> faculty's perceiving Snape as a budding little Dark Wizard. I read 
> Snape as having his life ruined by being Sorted into Slytherin.

Pippin:
Nah, his life was ruined by Voldemort. If it hadn't been for Voldemort,
Lily would never have perceived Mary's harrassment as political, there'd
have been no Death Eaters for Snape to join, and his interest in forbidden
magic would have been perceived the way Tom Riddle's was, as the kind 
of thing that many  bright wizard kids are curious about.

But there was an organized effort to spread paranoia in wizarding
society, to make young wizards think that they had enemies, that
their way of life was in danger, and that wizards were being 
kept from their natural rights by ministry restrictions on magic. 

I think Lily could have held her own as an influence against Avery
and Mulciber, but against a DE organization which was trying
to pull as many wizards as possible into its orbit, no doubt telling
wizards to take back the day and such,  she was overmatched. 


I don't think Sev and Lily would have married, but they'd have
broken up for personal reasons rather than political ones.

Snape would have published his potions book, and he'd have
gotten a job somewhere in the potions industry, courtesy of
Lucius Malfoy's patronage. Then, apart from being the sort of
dangerous idiot who grumbles when he's had a drink or two 
that Muggles get away with murder, he'd have been okay.


Pippin