Snape/Lucius Malfoy/Filch connections

[abigailnus]

No: HPFGUIDX 36435

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "catlady_de_los_angeles" <catlady at w...> wrote:
But when I 
> started working on time-lines and Malfoy family history and 
> genealogy, it seemed to me that ages and circumstances are right for 
> Lucius to be Riddle/Voldemort's godson; Lucius's extreme evilness 
> could be due to Riddle/Voldemort having been a major influence on his 
> upbringing.

Hmmm.  I'm not sure that works.  I've been operating under the assumption that Lucius' closeness with Voldemort has 
to do with the fact that he was in fact in LV's original inner circle (you know, the one that knew him as Lord Voldemort 
when he was still in school.)  The timeline works, Draco clearly states in CoS that his father was in school when the 
Chamber of Secrets was first opened - when Tom Riddle was in his sixth year.  Lucius would therefore be around 
Tom's age, give or take a few years, and would indeed be an old friend.

I've drawn from this, by the way, the assumption that Lucius Malfoy was in fact a mentor or some sort to young 
Severus Snape, either before or after he joined the DE, and that this is one of Snape's reasons for treating Malfoy so 
favourably.

By the way, as long a we're on the subject of Snape's friends, I noticed someone wondering what the reason for 
Snape and Filch's apparent friendship is (this is a small point in the FLIRTIAC campaign.)  I started wondering whether 
the reason wasn't the same as the one for Harry's closeness with Hagrid.  We don't know how old Filch is and it's 
possible that he was caretaker while Snape was in school, and they may have been on good terms.  Maybe Snape 
didn't break the rules a lot, or maybe he was a squealer, or for whatever reason - maybe like just attracts like.  Not as 
sexy as the FLIRTIAC/Kittygro/Love Triangle solutions, but it makes a kind of sense to me.

Abigail