Draco/Snape relationship

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 11363

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Monika Zaboklicka" 
<monika.zaboklicka at c...> wrote:
> I'm so glad somebody started this thread! Thanks, Teek!
> 
> >I think that if anyone who Draco "cares about" was to be hurt by
> >Voldemort, it would be Snape.
> 
> I'm not sure Malfoy cares for him. The only thing we know for 
certain is
> that Snape favours Draco almost beyond common sense. 

Do we?  I'm not even sure about this.  We know Snape favors the 
Slytherins in general, and he doesn't punish Draco for things he'd 
punish Gryffindors (particularly Harry) for.  This information comes 
to us via Harry, of course, but it seems to be objectively true.  But 
I don't know if we have any reason to think Snape favors, much less 
likes, Draco.

The most egregious case is in PA when he makes Ron and Harry cut up 
Draco's roots and all that, but is this really for Draco's benefit or 
is Snape just using Draco as a way to get at our boys?  In which case 
Snape and Draco do a lot of mutual using.  (I don't necessarily 
believe Draco thinks Snape is the best teacher in the school, either, 
when he says so in CS.  He's sucking up.)

>I guess Draco likes it,
> but I'm not sure what he thinks of Snape. I have an impression that 
he finds
> Snape more "useful" than respect-worthy (you know, something like 
"Who cares
> what Snape thinks? He'll back us up no matter what we do!").

Amy Z

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