Eileen Snape

 Eileen Prince

Biographical information

Full Name

Eileen Prince

Birth

7 January 1930, Normanby le Wold, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, Great Britain

Died

18 April 1986, Spinner's End, Cokeworth, West Midlands, Great Britain

Blood status

Pure-blood

Marital status

Widowed

Nationality

English

Family information

Children

Severus Snape (son)

Parents

• Mr. Prince † (pure-blood, father)

• Mrs. Prince † (pure-blood, mother)

Great-aunts

Dulcibella Prince-Shepley † (2nd great-aunt)

In-laws

Lily Evans (daughter-in-law)

Grandchildren

• Liliana Eileen "Lily" Snape (granddaughter)

• Severus Snape Jr. (grandson)

Relationships

Allies

• Prince family †

• Snape family

Romances

Tobias Snape † (estranged husband; 1 child)

Magical characteristics

Wand

10", hazel and dragon heartstring

Affiliation

House

Slytherin

Loyalty

• Prince family

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

• Slytherin

• Gobstone Club

• Snape family (in-laws)

Eileen Snape, née Prince (7 January 1930 - 18 April 1986) was a pure-blood English witch who attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1 September 1941 to June 1948. She was sorted into Slytherin. While at school, Eileen was the school Gobstones team captain during her fifth year. She was concurrently the President of the Hogwarts Gobstone Club.

She married a muggle named Tobias Snape and had one child with him, Severus.

Biography

Early life

Eileen Prince was born on 7 January 1930, in Normanby le Wold, Lincolnshire, England to Mr. and Mrs. Prince.

She likely began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on September 1, 1941, and was Sorted into Slytherin. During her fifth year at school, Eileen was the school Gobstones team captain and concurrently President of the Hogwarts Gobstone Club.

Adulthood

After graduating, Eileen met the Muggle Tobias Snape and married him on 19 March 1958. They moved into a terraced house in Cokeworth on a street called Spinner's End. It was close to the mill and near a nasty-smelling, polluted river.

Eileen's decision to marry Tobias may have resulted in her being disowned by her family— similar to Andromeda Tonks, who was disowned by her family after she married a Muggle-born man.

On 9 January 1960, she gave birth to a son, Severus Snape. Severus' childhood was plagued by the tumultuous, explosive atmosphere in the home, with his parents often fighting. Tobias would shout at Eileen and may have been physically abusive as well.

At some point in 1969, an unknown woman appeared nowhere when she saw them fight and a father abusive towards Snape. A woman made a simple spell to erase Tobias's mind from all his memories about his life so that he would not remember anything anymore. He walked off without memories. Young Snape was surprised by the unknown woman however she smiled and told her to take care of her mother then she walked away there. Eileen runs towards her son and asks if he is okay. Young Snape smiles only at her mother.

Eileen got a teacher job and bought uniforms for her son so that he could go to school and not have to wear his muggle clothes his school.

Her son Severus was already talented with magic before he received his Hogwarts letter in 1971. In 1995, Sirius Black claimed that Severus knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the students in his seventh year. Eileen taught him these spells by buying a books from magical bookstore.

On 1 September 1971, Eileen accompanied Severus to Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters at King's Cross Station and watched him leave on the Hogwarts Express.

Later life

Eileen died on 18 April 1986, at the age of 56. Her son, Severus, inherited the house in Spinner's End and lived there with his wife, Lily Evans, and their two kids.