Snape & Draco

[Aja]

No: HPFGUIDX 32582


Kyli Wayment <k_wayment at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > From: "haruspica23" <beene at fiberia.com>
> > Why would Snape, already having the guilt for being a former DE, be
> > so biased towards Malfoy?... I would assume that Snape would distance
> >himself from any interaction or associations with DE families... 

> Snape's not supposed to let other people on that he's a spy. With Draco 
> Malfoy being at Hogwarts and keeping his eye on Snape, he has to make a good 
> performance. 

But Snape *isn't* a spy at the time Malfoy starts Hogwarts. At that point
most of the wizarding world believes Voldemort to be dead.  In CoS even
Lucius Malfoy says it wouldn't be good to be enemies with Harry--certainly
not an idea he would have entertained aloud in front of his son had he
believed Voldemort to be alive. If Lucius doesn't know of Voldy's
existence, I can't imagine that Snape would, however intelligent a spy he
might be. 

> With Snape pretending to be a DE, he has to keep his act up at all
times, so none of the Slytherin's whose parents are DE's will come on to
him. 

I've always seen Snape's liking for Draco as genuine based on an
instinctive bond and the fact that he seems to take a liking in the
class--and Snape. (I can't imagine Snape gets to be on the most popular
list of that many students, so it's probably a nice change for him!) 

However, if it turned out that Snape really doesn't like Malfoy and has
only been treating him so well these 4 years as a front--imagine what that
would do to Malfoy, who seems to worship Snape second only to his father. 
That could prove an interesting plot twist, with Draco losing the
friendship of one of the few people (so far as we see) who has nurtured
him through his upbringing, and then somehow seeking revenge, or lashing
out in other volatile ways.

Aja (always overwhelmed with the possibilities for the direction of the
next 3 books)