Snape family
Family heritage
Blood status	Muggle and magical
Notable family members	Tobias Eileen Severus
Status	Possibly extinct[1]
Relationships
Related families	Prince family
Affiliation
House(s)	Slytherin
Loyalty	Hogwarts Death Eaters Order of the Phoenix

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Snape is the surname of a family with both Muggle and magical members. In modern times, they resided in a house on Spinner's End. Mr. and Mrs. Evans and their daughters Petunia and Lily lived nearby.^[2] The Snapes are related to the pure-blood Prince family.

Sometime before 1960, pure-blood witch Eileen Prince married Muggle Tobias Snape. They had one child, half-blood wizard Severus Snape. The marriage seemed to be unhappy, as they lived in near-destitution, frequently argued, and were neglectful of their son.^[3]

With Severus's death in 1998, the Snape family may have become extinct, as Severus had no sibilings and no children of his own,.

Family Members

• Eileen Snape née Prince — a pure-blood witch
• Severus Snape — a half-blood wizard, Potions and Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and Headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, member of the Order of the Phoenix, Death Eater (formerly)
• Tobias Snape — a Muggle

Etymology

J. K. Rowling has said that she took the surname Snape from an English village^[4], probably one in Yorkshire near Hadrian’s Wall. Snape is also an English verb meaning “to be hard upon, rebuke, snub”, derived from the Old Norse sneypa, “to outrage, dishonour, disgrace”.^[5]

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