What can we guess about Eileen Prince as a mother? We know she raised her son in Muggle poverty, judging from the used textbook and the neighborhood of Spinner’s End. Snape is not materialistic; magical artifacts or trappings of luxury hold no sway over him; she did not raise him to covet worldly goods, perhaps helping him see value in intellectual riches instead. She was president of a social club: she associated Hogwarts with friendship. She would have passed that on to her son as his birthright.
