Snape - Half Blood/Half Prince? R.A.B. Snapes true father?

[GodrictheGriffon]

The Hyphen might be there to show Snapes ignorance about the muggle world. ie. Grammar.

[youknowwho]

Why would grammer be different in the wizard world?

[FawkesthePhoenix]

well, everything in the wizarding world seems to be a little older than the muggle world, i.e. quills, cloaks, etc. perhaps that has something to do with it?

[GodrictheGriffon]

But he probably never went to muggle school so that shows that he was not a muggle-born.

[Peter Whitehead]

I don't think the hyphen proves or disproves anything. I left it out originally to emphasise that I didn't mean half-blood in the normal wizarding sense but I don't see why Half-Blood can't refer to half-Blood and half-Prince parentage. If you look up half in a dictionary you'll find a hyphen is used whenever half precedes another word, e.g. half-wit, half-breed, half-time, half-life, half-dozen, half-way etc.

I know the clues are a bit thin but the main reason I think this might be true is that its a play on words, and JK loves word play. I think she'd see leaving the hyphen out as too big a give away and putting it in as perfectly good English.