Return of Snape the spy

[mgrantwich at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 23563

>>> There's also the issue of Lucius Malfoy.  We know that Lucius 
>>> likes Snape.  
 
>> We do?  How do we know that?
 
> We don't know directly that LM likes Snape, but we do hear from 
> Draco in CoS (and this could be quite unreliable) that LM would 
> approve Snape to be the new headmaster. 


I think it is unreliable.  Draco could simply have been sucking up to 
Snape (who is after all the Head of his own House) with no idea or 
concern about what his father felt about the matter.  Or Draco (who 
is after all a kid) is revealing the limits of his horizons in 
assuming that his father shares his views or can be persuaded to 
share them.  Personally I'm with the sucking-up option; it's so much 
more Draco.

As for the two of them knowing each other because they were both 
DE's: we know that many DE's knew each other's identity (or how would 
they have clumped together to torture the Muggles at the Quiddich Cup 
finals?) but that doesn't mean they all know each other.  Somehow the 
very socially conscious Malfoys don't strike me as the kind of people 
who'd welcome Snape as anything closer than an acquaintance.