[HPforGrownups] Snape?... A question...

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 32615

Kyli Wayment wrote:

> 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. If Snape did something
> suspicious (such as giving points to a
> Gryffindor, or being nice to Harry), Draco would surely tell his father,
> who's a major supporter of the Dark Lord. 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. Make sense?

It has also always seemed to me that Snape might also know that making everything easy for Draco is doing him no
favors. Draco has had everything handed to him at home; now he's having things handed to him at school. His
"survival skills" will be nil when he comes up against a real problem or challenge. I think Snape might be well
aware of this, and might have less of a benevolent intent than most of you think, in indulging Draco so.

--Amanda