You could probably write the whole of Snape's life with narrative around moments defined by some of Blacks.
Isn't it? It makes the first year so much more interesting. Harry turns up, yes, but then so does a new Black. I can definitely see Snape loving taking Regulus under his wing when he and Sirius were on the outs--and Regulus would probably like Sirius to see that knowing how Sirius hated Snape as well.
I can't see Snape being "adopted" in the Black family tree in the same fashion as Sirius was by the Potters; but I could see him close to them, he definitly managed it with the Malfoy part of the family tree.
Yes, that's what I see too. It's not like Sirius with the Potters...though that's also interesting because in a way it's even more binding. It doesn't seem like it was ever about Snape wanting a family in terms of wanting somebody else's parents. Also it's kind of interesting that Sirius ultimately "fails" the Potter family and gets labelled the big traitor, the outcast. Even when he gets out of jail people tend to remind him that he's *not* Harry's family. With Snape, although he's never openly considered family, everybody goes to him.
I'm still wondering if Tonks' "Black"ness will play out at some point, and how.
I wonder that too. When I was flipping through the book looking for that other Reg quote I couldn't find I was surprised to see Tonks refer to Draco as "that Malfoy boy." It's perfectly correct for her to call him that, it just suddenly struck me how they're cousins but she sees him as a complete stranger. That's the thing about Tonks, for me, that so far she's a Black in blood but in really no other way, because she's been brought up outside that world.
(by the way, seizing the occasion to say, hi, I friended your journal a few weeks ago because you write the best character analysis in this fandom)
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Isn't it? It makes the first year so much more interesting. Harry turns up, yes, but then so does a new Black. I can definitely see Snape loving taking Regulus under his wing when he and Sirius were on the outs--and Regulus would probably like Sirius to see that knowing how Sirius hated Snape as well.
I can't see Snape being "adopted" in the Black family tree in the same fashion as Sirius was by the Potters; but I could see him close to them, he definitly managed it with the Malfoy part of the family tree.
Yes, that's what I see too. It's not like Sirius with the Potters...though that's also interesting because in a way it's even more binding. It doesn't seem like it was ever about Snape wanting a family in terms of wanting somebody else's parents. Also it's kind of interesting that Sirius ultimately "fails" the Potter family and gets labelled the big traitor, the outcast. Even when he gets out of jail people tend to remind him that he's *not* Harry's family. With Snape, although he's never openly considered family, everybody goes to him.
I'm still wondering if Tonks' "Black"ness will play out at some point, and how.
I wonder that too. When I was flipping through the book looking for that other Reg quote I couldn't find I was surprised to see Tonks refer to Draco as "that Malfoy boy." It's perfectly correct for her to call him that, it just suddenly struck me how they're cousins but she sees him as a complete stranger. That's the thing about Tonks, for me, that so far she's a Black in blood but in really no other way, because she's been brought up outside that world.
(by the way, seizing the occasion to say, hi, I friended your journal a few weeks ago because you write the best character analysis in this fandom)
Thanks!!