Editing Severus Snape (section)

===Family===
Snape's family background is mostly shown in flashbacks during the course of the last three novels. Snape was born to [[Eileen Prince]], a witch, and Tobias Snape, a Muggle, making him a half-blood (hence the name, "Half-Blood Prince"). This is rare for a Death Eater, as remarked in the last book, though Voldemort himself also had a Muggle father. Snape spent his early childhood living with his parents in a small house in [[Spinner's End]]. Snape's family was a poor one and he is described as wearing ill-fitting clothes "that were so mis-matched that it looked deliberate". As a child, Snape was apparently neglected and his parents often fought with one another. Snape was very eager to leave his home to go to Hogwarts.<ref name="The Prince's Tale" /> Towards the end of the last novel, Harry draws parallels between his childhood, Snape's, and Voldemort's.<ref name="The Forest Again">{{Cite Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|chapter=34}}</ref>