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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