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gmonkey42I just read this in The Penseive.
Recently, there has been a theory around about Severus Snape. If you re-arrange the letters in his name, you can come up with Perseus Evans. I want you all to go back and consider the memory from Snape's pensieve in OotP. As he's being ridiculed, Lily Evans rushes to his defense. She seems stunned when he calls her a mudblood. Not angry so much, but taken aback. Could this be because they are related, and she knows for a fact that Snape himself is a mudblood? I know it would surprise me if someone I knew to be a mudblood called me one. Is it at all possible that Snape changed his name going into school to distance himself with the Evans family and feign being a pure-blood so he could be in Slytherin? Is it far-fetched? Sure, but not impossible. Also, bear in mind that Snape is around 35, which would mean if he had a child at 25 years old, the child would be 10...like Mark Evans. Also remember that JKR said that students aren't privy to information concerning teachers and their spouses, so it's also possible that Snape is married. My guess is somehow Mark is related to Snape (probably his son), and that Snape is therefore related to Harry. It sounds crazy, but stranger things have happened. My guess is we will be seeing Mark entering Hogwarts next year, and we will learn all about him.
I have a few problems with this but the idea of Snape maybe being related to Lilly is intriguing. But first, the problems:
1. Snape changing his name when he entered Hogwarts. He was 11. How could he have changed his name? And if there was a pureblood family named Snape, then I think they'd object to some random, Muggle-born kid appropriating that name. And he had to have at least one magical parent or else there's no way he could have started at Hogwarts already knowing a bunch of curses. My personal theory? The Snapes are a pureblood family, though less wealthy and influential than the Malfoys or Blacks, and Snape's father was the bastard son of a Snape and a non-pureblood witch. (Bastard son of a Snape. I like the way that sounds. Anyway.) And Snape's mother was Muggle-born. So Snape's roughly half-Muggle. Or you could say he's a pureblood, if it only depends on whether both parents were magical. We know people don't have to be purebloods for more than one generation back as far as the Sorting Hat's concerned, because it was going to put Harry, the son of a Muggle-born, into Slytherin.
Pfft. I was just drawing a family tree on a scrap of paper to figure it out and I got this mental image of just doing one with some crackpot theory about Snape and Vernon being brothers and, like, Dumbledore being their dad and stuff. Anyway.
2. I'm pretty certain that Lily's immediate family were all Muggles. If Petunia were a Squib, then she wouldn't be so fixated on Lily's "abnormality" alone; she'd either think her whole family was abnormal or else (more likely) she wouldn't think there was anything wrong with magic. I can underdstand her being bitter about being raised in a family where they could all do magic and she couldn't but once Harry knew Lily was a witch, it seems odd to me that Petunia would've talked the way she did, never mentioning that her parents were also magical. I just looked it up in SS (yeah, I have the American version) and Petunia said of her parents "they were proud of having a witch in the family." A witch. Singular.
I was just thinking about Petunia, and how maybe there's something special about her, so Harry had to go there even if there were other, more distant relatives of Lily. It reminded me that there was supposed to be someone in Book 5 who displayed magical abilities who hadn't previously. I believe this wasn't just a rumor; this was actually a quote from J.K.R. Though I don't know exactly how she phrased it. She could simply have meant Neville displaying greater abilities and doing things we hadn't seen him do before.
3. If Perseus Evans was Snape's original name, then why go through the bother of making the anagram, instead of just calling himself Perseus Snape. Perseus, by the way, is not a very common name for Muggles. So I was looking on this anagram generator (yeah, I could've done them myself. It's called laziness) and anagrams for the remaining letters in Snape's name after you take out the "Evans" include "USSR pee" and "pus seer." Haw haw. I am sooo mature. They also include "peruses" so maybe he doesn't actually go after Lily, he just, uh, looks at her... and "ESP ruse" so maybe he's... somehow using Occlumency to, uh, fool people. Somehow. Don't mind me; I just always get a kick out of that anagram generator.
4. No child of Snape's would let a Muggle like Dudley beat them up without hexing the bejeezus out of him. Snape knew all those curses when he was 11 because, I suspect, he grew up in a rough neighborhood (maybe even Knockturn Alley) and needed them to defend himself. There's no way he'd raise a kid without similarly teaching him to defend himself (or herself, obviously. But we're talking about Mark Evans right now). OK, I know Snape threw a fit about Harry and Ron potentially exposing magic to Muggles. But that was Harry and Ron, first of all, and second of all, I'm sure Snape knows how to curse someone such that they don't even know they've been cursed. Snape may not have been able to defend himself very well when it came to him against James and Sirius but I'm sure Snape could easily have defended himself against a Muggle.
Oh, but I forgot about how the Ministry monitors underage magic use now. So I guess whether Mark could do magic or not, he wouldn't have been able to use it against Dudley. Dang. And, the more I think about it, the more Mark seems like Snape. Saying something snarky and getting the crap beaten out of him for it.
But if Snape had a kid, it'd be named Snape, not Evans. Snape would have no reason to go back to using his old name. Furthermore, if Snape had a kid, he wouldn't give the kid a Muggle name like "Mark." And he'd have the kid raised among magical people, so he wouldn't have any disadvantage when he started magical school. No matter how bad Snape's experience with the Death Eaters was, he wouldn't stay in the magical world himself and leave his kid to live as a Muggle.
Urrgh, now I'm starting to question my initial thoughts about the impossibility of Snape having a kid who lives as Mark does. I'm starting to think how maybe Snape wanted to distance himself from the kid in order to protect him. Maybe if anyone knew about it, they could try to use the kid to get to Snape. Sounds a little fanfictionish to me, but not totally implausible.
Recently, there has been a theory around about Severus Snape. If you re-arrange the letters in his name, you can come up with Perseus Evans. I want you all to go back and consider the memory from Snape's pensieve in OotP. As he's being ridiculed, Lily Evans rushes to his defense. She seems stunned when he calls her a mudblood. Not angry so much, but taken aback. Could this be because they are related, and she knows for a fact that Snape himself is a mudblood? I know it would surprise me if someone I knew to be a mudblood called me one. Is it at all possible that Snape changed his name going into school to distance himself with the Evans family and feign being a pure-blood so he could be in Slytherin? Is it far-fetched? Sure, but not impossible. Also, bear in mind that Snape is around 35, which would mean if he had a child at 25 years old, the child would be 10...like Mark Evans. Also remember that JKR said that students aren't privy to information concerning teachers and their spouses, so it's also possible that Snape is married. My guess is somehow Mark is related to Snape (probably his son), and that Snape is therefore related to Harry. It sounds crazy, but stranger things have happened. My guess is we will be seeing Mark entering Hogwarts next year, and we will learn all about him.
I have a few problems with this but the idea of Snape maybe being related to Lilly is intriguing. But first, the problems:
1. Snape changing his name when he entered Hogwarts. He was 11. How could he have changed his name? And if there was a pureblood family named Snape, then I think they'd object to some random, Muggle-born kid appropriating that name. And he had to have at least one magical parent or else there's no way he could have started at Hogwarts already knowing a bunch of curses. My personal theory? The Snapes are a pureblood family, though less wealthy and influential than the Malfoys or Blacks, and Snape's father was the bastard son of a Snape and a non-pureblood witch. (Bastard son of a Snape. I like the way that sounds. Anyway.) And Snape's mother was Muggle-born. So Snape's roughly half-Muggle. Or you could say he's a pureblood, if it only depends on whether both parents were magical. We know people don't have to be purebloods for more than one generation back as far as the Sorting Hat's concerned, because it was going to put Harry, the son of a Muggle-born, into Slytherin.
Pfft. I was just drawing a family tree on a scrap of paper to figure it out and I got this mental image of just doing one with some crackpot theory about Snape and Vernon being brothers and, like, Dumbledore being their dad and stuff. Anyway.
2. I'm pretty certain that Lily's immediate family were all Muggles. If Petunia were a Squib, then she wouldn't be so fixated on Lily's "abnormality" alone; she'd either think her whole family was abnormal or else (more likely) she wouldn't think there was anything wrong with magic. I can underdstand her being bitter about being raised in a family where they could all do magic and she couldn't but once Harry knew Lily was a witch, it seems odd to me that Petunia would've talked the way she did, never mentioning that her parents were also magical. I just looked it up in SS (yeah, I have the American version) and Petunia said of her parents "they were proud of having a witch in the family." A witch. Singular.
I was just thinking about Petunia, and how maybe there's something special about her, so Harry had to go there even if there were other, more distant relatives of Lily. It reminded me that there was supposed to be someone in Book 5 who displayed magical abilities who hadn't previously. I believe this wasn't just a rumor; this was actually a quote from J.K.R. Though I don't know exactly how she phrased it. She could simply have meant Neville displaying greater abilities and doing things we hadn't seen him do before.
3. If Perseus Evans was Snape's original name, then why go through the bother of making the anagram, instead of just calling himself Perseus Snape. Perseus, by the way, is not a very common name for Muggles. So I was looking on this anagram generator (yeah, I could've done them myself. It's called laziness) and anagrams for the remaining letters in Snape's name after you take out the "Evans" include "USSR pee" and "pus seer." Haw haw. I am sooo mature. They also include "peruses" so maybe he doesn't actually go after Lily, he just, uh, looks at her... and "ESP ruse" so maybe he's... somehow using Occlumency to, uh, fool people. Somehow. Don't mind me; I just always get a kick out of that anagram generator.
4. No child of Snape's would let a Muggle like Dudley beat them up without hexing the bejeezus out of him. Snape knew all those curses when he was 11 because, I suspect, he grew up in a rough neighborhood (maybe even Knockturn Alley) and needed them to defend himself. There's no way he'd raise a kid without similarly teaching him to defend himself (or herself, obviously. But we're talking about Mark Evans right now). OK, I know Snape threw a fit about Harry and Ron potentially exposing magic to Muggles. But that was Harry and Ron, first of all, and second of all, I'm sure Snape knows how to curse someone such that they don't even know they've been cursed. Snape may not have been able to defend himself very well when it came to him against James and Sirius but I'm sure Snape could easily have defended himself against a Muggle.
Oh, but I forgot about how the Ministry monitors underage magic use now. So I guess whether Mark could do magic or not, he wouldn't have been able to use it against Dudley. Dang. And, the more I think about it, the more Mark seems like Snape. Saying something snarky and getting the crap beaten out of him for it.
But if Snape had a kid, it'd be named Snape, not Evans. Snape would have no reason to go back to using his old name. Furthermore, if Snape had a kid, he wouldn't give the kid a Muggle name like "Mark." And he'd have the kid raised among magical people, so he wouldn't have any disadvantage when he started magical school. No matter how bad Snape's experience with the Death Eaters was, he wouldn't stay in the magical world himself and leave his kid to live as a Muggle.
Urrgh, now I'm starting to question my initial thoughts about the impossibility of Snape having a kid who lives as Mark does. I'm starting to think how maybe Snape wanted to distance himself from the kid in order to protect him. Maybe if anyone knew about it, they could try to use the kid to get to Snape. Sounds a little fanfictionish to me, but not totally implausible.
