Half-Blood Prince
Chapter 30
The White Tomb
"No--no--Harry, I didn't mean that!" she said hastily, looking around to check that they were not being overheard. "It's just that I was right about Eileen Prince once owning the book. You see...she was Snape's mother!"
"I thought she wasn't much of a looker," said Ron. Hermione ignored him.
"I was going through the rest of the old Prophets and there was a tiny announcement about Eileen Prince marrying a man called Tobias Snape, and then later an announcement saying that she'd given birth to a --"
"--murderer," spat Harry.
"Well...yes," said Hermione. "So...I was sort of right. Snape must have been proud of being 'half a Prince,' you see? Tobias Snape was a muggle from what it said in the Prophet."
"Yeah, that fits," said Harry. "He'd play up the pure-blood side so he could get in with Lucius Malfoy and the rest of them...He's just like Voldemort. Pure-blood mother, Muggle father...ashamed of his parentage, trying to make himself feared using the Dark Arts, gave himself an impressive new name--Lord Voldemort -- the Half-Blood Prince -- how could Dumbledore have missed --?"
pg 637
Chapter 30
The White Tomb
"No--no--Harry, I didn't mean that!" she said hastily, looking around to check that they were not being overheard. "It's just that I was right about Eileen Prince once owning the book. You see...she was Snape's mother!"
"I thought she wasn't much of a looker," said Ron. Hermione ignored him.
"I was going through the rest of the old Prophets and there was a tiny announcement about Eileen Prince marrying a man called Tobias Snape, and then later an announcement saying that she'd given birth to a --"
"--murderer," spat Harry.
"Well...yes," said Hermione. "So...I was sort of right. Snape must have been proud of being 'half a Prince,' you see? Tobias Snape was a muggle from what it said in the Prophet."
"Yeah, that fits," said Harry. "He'd play up the pure-blood side so he could get in with Lucius Malfoy and the rest of them...He's just like Voldemort. Pure-blood mother, Muggle father...ashamed of his parentage, trying to make himself feared using the Dark Arts, gave himself an impressive new name--Lord Voldemort -- the Half-Blood Prince -- how could Dumbledore have missed --?"
pg 637