Draco - Snape - Death Eaters - My Fanfic

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No: HPFGUIDX 11646

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
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> 
> I'm bothered by scene because Draco is being SO CHILDISH in it. 
Gloating
> loudly about the Dark Lord being back when his family's is still
> pretending, for security reasons, to be against the Dark Lord (which
> will do as an explanation for sending Draco back to Hogwarts). 
Saying
> 'first' and then correcting himself -- I don't spend much time with
> children, but that strikes me as more 10 year old than 14 year old, 
and
> doesn't omen well for him maturing enough to make his own decision 
which
> side to be on.

Agree with you there. 
Indeed, this does seem to give lie to the idea that Draco is 
especially intelligent. Or maybe he is smart, but lacks common sense. 
Why should he go around telling everyone that he is a supporter of 
the Dark Lord? Even his father warns him that it would be imprudent 
(IIRC) to remain less than fond of Harry. For someone who's supposed 
to be cunning, Draco's plots are rather transparent. I mean, if you 
really are very Machiavellian and ambitious, you don't give away your 
hostile intentions to your enemies. 

> 
> Someone else asked whether the Death Eaters knew that their Dark 
Lord
> was a Halfblood. I guess they did, as Barty Junior said that he and 
the
> Dark Lord had in common having had very unsatisfactory fathers, 
being
> named after them, and having killed them. I wonder how the ones 
whose
> motive was that they cared about pedigrees rationalized that?

'Twas I. :) Well, there is the perspective that many are in for it 
not so much for the anti-Muggleness, but because they are ambitious 
as well, and support Voldemort because he is the strongest. It could 
be also that they rationalize that his descent from Slytherin cancels 
out everything else. Re:  the Diggorys and Draco's reaction, remember 
what Draco said about there being the "right sort" of purebloods and 
not. (It seems rather incredible that there are that many purebloods 
left anyway, given the amount of muggles around Hogwarts)
> 
<snape speculation>
> 
> If other Death Eaters know that Snape not only testified against 
them,
> but was spying against them BEFORE the Dark Lord fell, some of them 
who
> are still on the loose may be serious enough about wanting revenge 
that
> Hogwarts is the only safe place for him to be. In that regard, have 
we
> ever seen him go even to Hogmeade?

No, but Harry has no idea what happens to the teachers during the 
summer, for example (hey, that would be a cool fanfic. Explain what 
all the rest of the cast [we know what Harry and Ron, and to some 
extent Hermione do] does during the summer), nor does he go into 
Hogsmeade enough for us, IMHO, to really draw any conclusions for it. 
It's a good theory though; but it seems like most of those DEs still 
loose weren't very passionate about the cause, not enough to risk 
their own hides by assassinating a known double-agent, anyway. 

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> 
> One of the trial scenes shown in the Pensieve -- IIRC the one where
> Karkaroff tried to buy his release from Azkaban by turning in his
> friends -- shows Snape being accused and Dumbledore rising in open 
court
> to vouch for Snape, that he had turned against the Dark Side and 
been a
> useful spy to the Light Side while the Dark Lord was still in power.
> Everyone in the courtroom heard, which may have included Rita 
Skeeter
> (Harry saw her in at least one Pensieve trial scene) or some other
> journalist. Even if no journalist published that information, people
> gossip and word gets around: how could the escaped Death Eaters NOT 
know
> that Snape was the spy against them?

Yes. It does seem odd that this fact is not more generally known. 
Maybe that's why all the other teachers don't dislike Snape. 

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Charmian