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And I would just like to say...
I wasn't wrong about everything.
"Oh, the house isn't mine--or at least, it's not my family's. I'm a half-blood, Potter, in case you hadn't noticed. This," he waved a casual hand to suggest the massive edifice in which they stood, "is the spoils of war."
-from one of my unfinished stories, pre-HBP (and quite possibly pre-OOTP, even -- I really ought to date things)
So my Snape (or at least one of them) has been a halfblood for far longer than we've canonically known his pedigree. :D
"Oh, the house isn't mine--or at least, it's not my family's. I'm a half-blood, Potter, in case you hadn't noticed. This," he waved a casual hand to suggest the massive edifice in which they stood, "is the spoils of war."
-from one of my unfinished stories, pre-HBP (and quite possibly pre-OOTP, even -- I really ought to date things)
So my Snape (or at least one of them) has been a halfblood for far longer than we've canonically known his pedigree. :D
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Most of my Snapes are, if not halfblood, then at least not of exceptional pedigree -- I don't think I ever bought "fabulouswealth!Snape" stories/characterisations, really, though I can suspend disbelief when needed for an otherwise good story. :D
It's just that, well, Snape tries too hard. If he'd really been born to luxury and grandeur, he ought to have that same air of self-satisfaction and superiority that the Malfoys display. Instead, Snape is touchy (hah -- downright prickly) and takes anything and everything as an insult, and he always seems to be trying his d*mnedest to prove himself, while Malfoy radiates the assumption that everyone else could only hope to attain the level he exists on. :D