Fandom Discussion and Poll: Snape and His Accursed Bloodline

[themostepotente]

sinick and I had a discussion not too long ago on Snape's bloodline and whether or not his bloodline was truly a secret.

I can buy that Dumbledore and McGonagall were privy to his familial bloodline, but anyone else? I think Snape being as unpopular as he was would have done just about anything to make certain his background was kept as secret as possible. It's been suggested that a lot of the kids sorted into Slytherin were actually half-bloods masquerading as pure-bloods to escape scrutiny or worse. This makes a lot of sense to me.

I guess the crux of our debate was whether or not Lucius knew Severus was a half-blood. I maintain that Lucius did not. I can't imagine Lucius would have had much to do with him otherwise, but then Lucius doesn't seem to mind that Voldemort isn't of pure blood.

sinick maintains that because pure-bloods are fewer in numbers than half-bloods and Muggle-borns, Lucius would be familiar with family names in conjunction with bloodlines. Goddess forbid, he would rub cocks noses with anyone of inferior status.

I must also stress that because Snape is an accomplished Occlumens, wouldn't he be able to keep his skeletons closeted? Well, maybe not from Voldemort. He, of course, is a skilled Legilimens.

Fuck, I'm confused :P

And while I'm on the subject of Snape's bloodline, there are ticky boxes to check regarding your thoughts...

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Lastly (I'm making this an essay style question :P), who might have been aware of Snape's bloodline? How did they come to find out?

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Comments

[hilarita.livejournal.com]

Aware of Snape's bloodline. Dumbledore, certainly. Probably McGonagall, and any other staff members old enough to have been around the school (as either teacher or pupil) when Snape was there.
Lucius - Snape wouldn't have told him, as he was so much older he probably didn't have much to do with Snape at school. It depends on whether all the purebloods know the names of all the pureblood families. If so, then Snape's bloodline is an open secret. I incline to think that most pureblood families would be familiar with the majority of other pureblood lines, but that there were sufficient gaps in their knowledge to be able to say things like, 'Ah, but there was a cadet branch of the Wimblefloops who changed their name in the 1600s and I'm descended from them' or 'Ah, Snape is an anglicisation from a cadet branch of some random European pureblood family'.
I imagine the Marauders wouldn't know, otherwise they'd taunt him about it.
Voldemort would know, because Snape would probably tell him, as a cunning psychological move to show how purebloods needed to be able to lord it over Muggles appropriately.
Half-blood Slytherins probably know Snape's a half-blood, as he may have told them, in an effort to shove the house away from its unnatural obsession with bloodlines.

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I like Wimblefloops. *G*