[HPforGrownups] Re: Is Draco Redeemable? + Draco/Snape relationship

[Teek]

No: HPFGUIDX 11304


--- Sister Mary Lunatic <klaatu at primenet.com> 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.

A question that came to mind: What does Snape think of Draco? He
obviously knows his father, and probably thinks he's a git. But a
very powerful git. Maybe Voldemort doesn't know that Snape is a
traitor, but Lucius (or some other death eater) does, and is keeping
it as black mail. It would explain some of the favoritism that Snape
shows Draco. 

Does anyone think that Snape's blatent unfairness is just residual
Potter-Hatred, and a bias toward Slytherin House? I think Snape has
some respect for Draco as a person, particularly since, as Draco's
house-head, he surely knows him better/more favorably than Harry. I
am certain that Draco is intelligent, and a talented wizard, if
nothing else, which Snape values. If Snape has truly turned against
the death eaters, wouldn't he have some bias against the children of
parents who he felt were truely EVIL, instead of the children of his
teenage antagonist? 
I think the story of how Snape became a death eater, and how he
changed his mind needs to be told. (Thank goodness there's a whole
nother three books to tell us.)

- Teek 
----
"...looking forward to a real breakfast later, [Harry] ate his
grapefruit without complaint. <snip> 
"Is this IT?" he said grumpily to Aunt Petunia. Aunt Petunia gave him
a severe look, and then nodded pointedly at Dudley, who had already
finished his own grapefruit quarter, and was eyeing Harry's with a
very sour look in his piggy little eyes."- GoF, Chapter 3.

... anyone else notice this? {{{Flints}}} <g> 


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