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|blood=[[Pure-blood]] (possibly)<ref name="HBP">In {{HBP|B|30}}, Harry speaks of Snape playing up "pure-blood mother, Muggle father" in response to an article Hermione is reading when she says [[Tobias Snape|Snape's father]] was a muggle. However, the article never specifically said Eileen was pure-blood. There is a chance Harry made an assumption when hearing of Tobias. Snape would still be half-blood if his mother was as well.</ref>
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'''Prince''' was the surname of a [[wizardkind|wizarding]] family that may have been [[pure-blood]]<ref name="HBP" />. The only known member of the family was [[Eileen Prince]], a witch who married into the [[Non-magic people|Muggle]] [[Snape family]].
   
'''Prince''' is the surname of a [[pure-blood]] wizarding family. It is unknown if this family is still extant or still pure-blood, as the only known family member, [[Eileen Prince]], married a [[Muggle]] and had a [[half-blood]] son.<ref>''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''</ref> Upon the death of her son, [[Severus Snape]], the female line of the Prince family likely became extinct, as Snape never had any children.
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It is possible that Eileen had siblings or cousins who married and continued the family name. But if she did not and she was the last Prince, then the Prince family died out with her, and the female line of the family became extinct upon the [[death]] of her son [[Severus Snape]], who never had children.
   
 
==Family Members==
 
==Family Members==
 
*[[Eileen Prince]]
 
*[[Eileen Prince]]
*[[Severus Snape]], also known as "[[The Half-Blood Prince]]", is a distaff member of the Prince family, as his mother was a Prince.
 
 
 
==Etymology==
 
==Etymology==
''[[Wikipedia:Prince|Prince]]'' is a general term for a monarch or a member of a monarch's family, and is a hereditary title of some European royalty, likely alluding to the aristocratic status of pure-blood families in the [[wizarding world]]. The word is derived from the Latin ''[[Wikipedia:Princeps|princeps]]'', meaning "a prime", which was one of the titles of the Roman Emperor, in which case it was generally translated as "First Citizen". ''[[Wikipedia:The Prince|The Prince]]'' is also the title of a famous political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli; an interesting point considering that the adjective derived from the author's surname, ''Machiavellian'', is defined as "attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming and unscrupulous methods", which may allude to the ideal traits of [[Slytherin]] house.<ref>[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Machiavellian Wiktionary Definition: Machiavellian]</ref>
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''[[Wikipedia:Prince|Prince]]'' is a general term for a monarch or a member of a monarch's family, and is a hereditary title of some European royalty, likely alluding to the aristocratic status of pure-blood families in the [[wizarding world]]. The word is derived from the Latin ''princeps'', meaning "first", which was one of the titles of the [[Wikipedia:Princeps#Roman Emperor|Roman Emperor]] (as ''princeps civitatis'', which means "first citizen"). ''[[Wikipedia:The Prince|The Prince]]'' is also the title of a famous political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli; an interesting point considering that the adjective derived from the author's surname, ''Machiavellian'', is defined as "attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming and unscrupulous methods", which may allude to the ideal traits of [[Slytherin]] house.<ref>[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Machiavellian Wiktionary Definition: Machiavellian]</ref>
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==Appearances==
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*{{OOTP}} {{1st}} {{Flashback}}
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*{{HBP}} {{Mention}}
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*{{DH}} {{Mention}}
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*{{PM}} {{Mention}}
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*{{WW}} {{Mention}}
   
 
==Notes and references==
 
==Notes and references==
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Latest revision as of 13:04, 28 June 2020

Prince was the surname of a wizarding family that may have been pure-blood[1]. The only known member of the family was Eileen Prince, a witch who married into the Muggle Snape family.

It is possible that Eileen had siblings or cousins who married and continued the family name. But if she did not and she was the last Prince, then the Prince family died out with her, and the female line of the family became extinct upon the death of her son Severus Snape, who never had children.

Family Members

Etymology

Prince is a general term for a monarch or a member of a monarch's family, and is a hereditary title of some European royalty, likely alluding to the aristocratic status of pure-blood families in the wizarding world. The word is derived from the Latin princeps, meaning "first", which was one of the titles of the Roman Emperor (as princeps civitatis, which means "first citizen"). The Prince is also the title of a famous political treatise by Niccolò Machiavelli; an interesting point considering that the adjective derived from the author's surname, Machiavellian, is defined as "attempting to achieve goals by cunning, scheming and unscrupulous methods", which may allude to the ideal traits of Slytherin house.[2]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 30 (The White Tomb), Harry speaks of Snape playing up "pure-blood mother, Muggle father" in response to an article Hermione is reading when she says Snape's father was a muggle. However, the article never specifically said Eileen was pure-blood. There is a chance Harry made an assumption when hearing of Tobias. Snape would still be half-blood if his mother was as well.
  2. Wiktionary Definition: Machiavellian