Best Answer: Divergent, rifts are created when the plates are seperating. Seperating plates are divergent. Converging plates are convergent. The mid-oceanic ridge is kind of ridiculous given where the rift is.
No, Snape is definitely not Harry's dad. James Potter is Harry's dad. There is no chance that there is ambiguity or mystery here. Snape was a rival for the affections of Harry's mom (Lily). James and Snape disliked each other a lot.
The Potter family is a very old one, but it was never (until the birth of Harry James Potter) at the very forefront of wizarding history, contenting itself with a solid and comfortable existence in the backwaters.