Snape's Task
heidit at netbox.com
heidit at netbox.com
Wed Apr 4 14:19:14 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 15926
--- In HPforGrownups at y..., LynnP333 at a... wrote:
>
> Also, I always wondered what happened after Moody dragged Draco
down to see
> Snape after the bouncing ferret incident. Did Snape actually
bother with
> giving Draco any detention? If Moody was a friend of both Snape
*and* Lucius
> Malfoy, it must have put Snape in an awkward position. Then
again... I think
> it's really just Draco's wishful thinking that his father would
really care
> if he was treated unfairly... kind of sad, actually.
For one take on what happened after, you can read my fanfic, A
Surfeit of Curses, at http://www.fanfiction.net/index.fic?
action=story-read&storyid=96654&chapter=6 - you can read the begining
of that chapter and it will make sense, but you'll miss some of the
other interactions.
To tie this back to canon, even before I started writing fanfic, I
believed that Moody had made Draco's year a living hell in DaDA
class, in revenge against Lucius Malfoy, who he hates because not
only is Lucius a death eater, walking free, but he's still in
positions of power, whereas Crouch's father lost his power due to
Barty's own association with the death eaters. I don't think Barty
cared about this because he *cared* about his father as a person
anymore - I think he was bitter because if Crouch, Senior had
continued on his fast track to minister of magic, Barty would now be
better able to manipulate the system for Voldemort's benefit, and his
loss of power 13ish years before prevented that.
I think Lucius would care if Draco was being treated unfairly, again
not out of any consideration for his son as a person, but because
such unfair treatment could be considered an embarrassment to the
Malfoy family, a showing of weakness before an auror.
Of course, I also believe that when Draco learns that Moody wasn't
Moody, during the summer before fifth year...he's going to have a few
changes in his beliefs.
And I do agree with the other people who posted - I think moody was
being sarcastic when he said that Lucius and Severus were his *old
friends*.
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