Snape's treatment of Draco (was: Re:Snape, Lucius, and missing DE's (was: Re: Snape and the Potters)

[evenflow200214]

No: HPFGUIDX 47597

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "personman46" <mmckay at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Audra1976 at a... wrote:
> > Jazmyn wrote:
> > <<Hmmmm... May be that Snape will try to help Draco not make the 
> mistakes he made, favoring him cause he sees himself as a kid?>>
> > 
> > Snape's treatment of Draco as interpreted by Harry and others may 
> just be another misconception about him.  We are led to think that 
> Snape just favors the Slytherins and especially Draco just because 
> Snape shares the belief that purebloods are superior and because 
> Draco is from a prominent, wealthy, pureblood family.
> > 
> > Now I'm not saying that Snape doesn't really have these beliefs 
(I 
> love him and everything, but face it, the man has issues ;)), but 
> perhaps Snape is also favoring Draco because, as Jazmyn asserts, he 
> perceives Draco may be tempted to make the same mistakes he did, 
and 
> he intends to use his leverage to guide Draco away from those 
> mistakes.
> > 
> > If this is so, we should begin to really see it develop in the 
> next book, as it *appears* that Lucius will be a full-fledged DE 
> again, actively serving Voldemort, and Snape is on the opposing 
side.
> > 
> > Audra
> 
> What I don't understand is why Lucius lets his son anywhere near 
> Snape, assuming that Lucius knows that Snape is a traitor and was a 
> spy against his cause (which all would have been revealed through 
> the trials of the DE's after the fall of Voldemort).  Wouldn't he 
> have used his influence as a School Governor to make sure Snape 
> never even got the job in the first place?  You'ld think that 
Lucius 
> would be afraid Snape would do what was mentioned above to his son.
> 
> -Person Man

Lucius is a traitor himself... If he starts piling the pressure on 
Dumbledore, Snape could reveal some choice things about Lucius... 
Lucius switched sides to save his own skin and if he's seen making a 
song and dance about it, the other Death Eaters (the loyal ones) will 
turn around and say *well who are you to have a go at him?* He also 
draws attention to the fact that he has left Voldemort, if he keeps 
it quiet he might be able to get away with it. Fudge is so blinded, 
he reckons that Lucius was never involved with Voldemort... He can't 
just create a fuss and call for Snape's head without a mighty good 
reason... And he can't say *because Snape's a former Death Eater* as 
he'd burn all his bridges with the DE's and he can't say anything 
else or he implicates himself.

--Daniel