[HPforGrownups] Why does Snape like Malfoy???

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In a message dated 25/10/2001 10:01:47 GMT Daylight Time, 
laoisecronin at yahoo.com writes:
<<  i've just been re-reading ps/ss and i noticed that it says numerous 
 times that Malfoy was Snapes favorite student!why?
  Snape was a death eater so he must know that Malfoy's father is one 
 too. If Snape has come over to the other side surely he would know al 
 l the things that the Malfoy family did during Voldemorts reign. If 
 Snape was now "good" wouldn't he dislike malfoy a little bit for 
 this, i'm not saying he should hate him for what his father has done 
 but he certainly wouldn't be his favourite student!
  Or maybe Snape is just pretending to like him to divert attention! 
  Any thoughts???? >>


I think one reason he likes him is beacuse Malfoy is in Slytherin, and Snape 
is head of Slytherin house. Favouritism towards his own students. Malfoy 
obviously dislikes Harry and Snape doesn't like Harry or Harry's father. 
Another reason I think is that Snape knows Lucius Malfoy, death eater or not, 
currently has/had a lot of power over the governors of the school and the 
ministry, and by keeping his son sweet, there could be a chance that Lucius 
could get Snape a better position in the school or elsewhere. 
We also don't know for sure that Snape is really good. It has been said that 
he returned to the good side and became a spy for Dumbledore at great 
personal risk to himself, but some of his actions have been puzzling if he 
really is on the good side. Another thing I've just thought of is, there's a 
possiblity that Lucius didn't know Snape was spying while he was a Death 
Eater, and by giving Draco a frosty reception Lucius' suspicions could be 
raised as I would imagine Draco would be the first to send an owl home 
slagging off anyone that wasn't nice to him. But mostly I'd go with the 
favouritism and the fact that they both don't like Harry.
Plus it could be a bit pot calling the kettle black if Snape kept his 
distance from the Malfoy's because of what they did as Death Eaters when he 
was one himself for a while, and at the time, there was no Voldemort anymore.

Sara