Is Draco Redeemable? + Draco/Snape relationship

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No: HPFGUIDX 11429

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Teek <purdymango1 at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- Sister Mary Lunatic <klaatu at p...> wrote:
> > How's Draco going to feel about Voldemort if someone HE cares 
about
> > gets zapped by Lord V? What if Lucius starts getting grandiose 
> > ideas and Voldemort squashes him?  (Don't really see that 
> > happening.)  What if Crabbe's or Goyle's father were to cross 
> > Voldemort and get eliminated?
> 
> I think that if anyone who Draco "cares about" was to be hurt by
> Voldemort, it would be Snape. (see below) Voldemort does not
> generally forgive those who abandon him, and any death eater who has
> been exposed as Dumbledore's "valuable spy" would be, in my opinion,
> first on Voldemort's list of "people to kill off most unpleasantly."
> He seems very concerned about the people who abandoned him, but has
> been letting Snape get away with turning away willfully, unless I'm
> missing a detail that shows Voldemort doesn't know Snape's gone
> traitor. It's another of Voldemort's blind spots that he hasn't
> killed Snape already. (Of course, from a literary point of view,
> Snape can't die, he's a crucial character.) I think that later in 
the
> books, though, Snape will be either killed or made to suffer 
greatly.
> I think Harry is becoming aware of Snape's buried morality, despite
> his outer hatred of Harry... I would like to see a future scene in
> which Harry has to risk his neck for a teacher who he hates.
> 

Oh, goodness, any goodness of Draco is the fantasy of someone other 
than JKR (with respect to those who read fanfic it's just not there 
in the books)

Snape is mentioned by Voldemort as someone who has left him forever..
Snape is at HOGWARTS under the personal protection of Albus 
Dumbledore, and Voldemort cannot touch him...only Hogwarts is safe...

Susan