Why is Snape the half blood prince in Harry Potter?

Question

Could someone who has read all the books tell me a little about it. It seems they left alot out of the book. Why was Snape the half blood prince and what is a half blood prince? Was Snape supposed to kill Dumbldore(spelling) or is he really evil. Someone please enlighten me. Spoilers are cool.

Thanks
Jill

Answer 1

Snape named himself The Half Blood Prince because his mother's surname was Prince and he was Half Blood. (as his dad was a muggle(non magical person.)) Dumbledore asked him to kill him so he could continue his "double agent"* role. Also Dumbledore was getting old and was going to die soon.



*Snape was Dumbledore's spy. Voldemort thought he was on his side but he was on Dumbledore's because he loved Lily (harry's mum) since he was a boy.

Answer 2

Snape's mother was Eileen Prince - his dad was a muggle - hence the "half blood prince". His dad took off when Snape was young, and he never quite got over that. He also was madly in love with Lily Evans and never quite got over that either.



Snape was instructed by Dumbledore to kill him, if Draco was unable. It's way too much to type, but since you say spoilers are okay, the long and short of it is that Snape is a good guy at the end of it all.



You learn loads more about Lily and Snape in book 7. I really strongly suggest you read all of them, but definitely book 7. I am not sure a movie watcher will understand the ending without having read all the books. So much must be left out to fit into a movie.

Answer 3

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Why is Snape the half blood prince in Harry Potter?

Could someone who has read all the books tell me a little about it. It seems they left alot out of the book. Why was Snape the half blood prince and what is a half blood prince? Was Snape supposed to kill Dumbldore(spelling) or is he really evil. Someone please enlighten me. Spoilers are...

Answer 4

Snapes mother, Eileen Prince, was a pure blood witch who married a muggle, Tobias Snape. So Severus, their son, would be "half a Prince" since he is half blood. Yes Snape was supposed to kill Dumbledore because he was already dying from the Gaunt ring that Voldemort turned into a Hocrux (that's why his hand is blackened because he touched the ring which carried a powerful curse.) it goes deeper than that but you really have to read the 7th book to get all the info ;]

Answer 5

The Half-Blood Prince was Severus Snape, the one who teaches Potions at Hogwarts and is often described to be like a 'greasy,old bat'. He gave himself this name considering the fact that he was a half-blood as his father Tobias Snape was a muggle and his mother Eileen Prince, a witch. He takes the reference 'Prince' from his mother's surname.

Answer 6

Sure I'll help you Jill.



Snape is the Half-Blood Prince because hes a Half-Blood. Half muggle(human) blood, half wizard blood. A Half-Blood Prince is just the term that J.K. Rowling used to describe it. Yes Snape was. Hes not evil. If you read the 7th book you find out that he was there all along protecting Harry, keeping watch for Dumbledore. He was a 'double agent' so to speak. He was always working for Dumbledore. But only after Voldemort killed Lily. Snape was in love with Lily so when the Dark Lord didnt spare her, he asked for Dumbledores help. Dumbledore told him to protect Harry aka The Boy Who Lived.



Im glad you think spoilers are cool. Because I just gave you a whole lot of them. lol.



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Answer 7

Born to Eileen Prince and Tobias Snape, Severus was raised in the Muggle dwelling of Spinner's End where he was in close proximity to Lily and Petunia Evans. Severus fell deeply in love with Lily at a very young age. In 1971 he began his first term at Hogwarts where he was sorted into Slytherin. Severus became the immediate enemy of James Potter and Sirius Black and was a frequent victim of their bullying.



He got Prince from his mother's maiden name. And since his parents were muggle born and he wasn't, he can't be a pure blood. He nicknamed himself the Half Blood Prince.

Answer 8

Prince is his family name.And he was a half-blood meaning his mother was a witch and father was a muggle.Dumbledore asked Snape to kill him before the curse could be spread entirely in his body.Also that Snape could be a trusty deatheater to Lord Voldemort.But actually it was an act and it's revealed in the 7th book.

Answer 9

Seriously? You want someone to spoil the books?



Snape is the son of Eileen Prince, a witch, and a muggle. He is a half-blood and his mother's maiden name is Prince.

Answer 10

Snape's mother was Eileen Prince, who was a witch. His father was a Muggle and since Snape is into the whole pureblood superiority thing he chose the nickname "Half-Blood Prince" to play up his wizard heritage. Make sense? The "Prince" part is a reference to his mother's maiden name, his wizarding family.

Answer 11

His mother's maiden name was Prince and he was a "half-blood" meaning that one parent is a wizard and the other is not.

Dumbledore told Snape to kill him. Dumbledore's hand was blackened

by the ring that is shown in the movie. That ring contained part of Voldemort's soul and was meant to curse whomever wore it in an attempt to prevent him from destroying it. The ring is one of the "deathy hallows" but that is too much to get into... Anyway, Dumbledore is a very intuitive man and realized that Voldemort had ordered Draco Malfoy to kill him. The curse that he recieved from the ring would have killed him eventually but he wanted Snape to kill him in order to preserve Draco's innocence. Snape was intended to kill Dumbledore all along.

Answer 12

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the half blood prince was snape- prince was his mothers surname .

Answer 13

like the other 2 people said bout snape n his family is true it is in the books if u red them. also snape had a deal with dumbledoor 2 kill him since dumbledoor but i seal on his body(thts where the black hand of his comes in) snape isnt really evil he wanted revenge against valdimort for killing harry's mother inwhich he loved very much.

Answer 14

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Snape called himself the hafblood prince because one of his parents wasn't a wizard whereas the other was; halfblood.



Snape was supposed to kill Dumbledore (spelling?) but i'd advice you to read the book for that.

Answer 15

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