Again, my point....
Change too much and we have barrels labeled "Pork Fat" that actually contain Hydraulic fluid, to use your own analogy.
But we're all going around in circles here and not getting the damn truck loaded. So lets play cargomaster and get back to whats on the bill of lading, ok?
IF:
Snape falls in love with Petunia Evens instead of Lilly Evens?
THEN:
Does he ever tell Petunia?
Does it change if she's actually a Squib instead of pure muggle?
If he does tell her, does Petunia return any sort of feelings?
Is she offended by Snape's personality or grooming?
Does she see past that to see a worthwhile person underneath and take him on as sort of a fixer up project?
Further down the road, this leads to the question of do we have Petunia still married to Vernon come the start of the 'official' timeline? if so, why
did she break with snape, (assuming that she doesnt snub him from the start)
Would Snape have joined the death eaters at all? probobly not if he was still in love with Petunia at the time, though he might if she was particulary snottish
during the breakup or snubed him right off the bat. Of course there is still the peer pressure angle of "all the other cool sytherins are doing it,"
but I doubt that would work, as Snake Face is a highly accomplished legimens, and would weed that sort out as too fair weather to be trusted until he was
actually in charge.
If Snape IS a death eater:
Would he have reason to turn coat after learning that the Potters were the next in line?
Would he even have been the one there to hear the prophecy Trelawny gives?
All of which have to be defined to understand what sort of world we have at the point(s) of departure so we can decide what, if any changes are visible at the
start of the story, assuming that we pretty much start, as JK did on the close order of Harry's eleventh birthday. Certainy there was story to be told
before that point, but if you look at it, it really was more of laying the groundwork defining harry's miserable life prior to arriving at Hogwarts.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
Change too much and we have barrels labeled "Pork Fat" that actually contain Hydraulic fluid, to use your own analogy.
But we're all going around in circles here and not getting the damn truck loaded. So lets play cargomaster and get back to whats on the bill of lading, ok?
IF:
Snape falls in love with Petunia Evens instead of Lilly Evens?
THEN:
Does he ever tell Petunia?
Does it change if she's actually a Squib instead of pure muggle?
If he does tell her, does Petunia return any sort of feelings?
Is she offended by Snape's personality or grooming?
Does she see past that to see a worthwhile person underneath and take him on as sort of a fixer up project?
Further down the road, this leads to the question of do we have Petunia still married to Vernon come the start of the 'official' timeline? if so, why
did she break with snape, (assuming that she doesnt snub him from the start)
Would Snape have joined the death eaters at all? probobly not if he was still in love with Petunia at the time, though he might if she was particulary snottish
during the breakup or snubed him right off the bat. Of course there is still the peer pressure angle of "all the other cool sytherins are doing it,"
but I doubt that would work, as Snake Face is a highly accomplished legimens, and would weed that sort out as too fair weather to be trusted until he was
actually in charge.
If Snape IS a death eater:
Would he have reason to turn coat after learning that the Potters were the next in line?
Would he even have been the one there to hear the prophecy Trelawny gives?
All of which have to be defined to understand what sort of world we have at the point(s) of departure so we can decide what, if any changes are visible at the
start of the story, assuming that we pretty much start, as JK did on the close order of Harry's eleventh birthday. Certainy there was story to be told
before that point, but if you look at it, it really was more of laying the groundwork defining harry's miserable life prior to arriving at Hogwarts.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children