Snape and the Death Eaters?

[annoyedpackrat]

No: HPFGUIDX 55306

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "catphile5" <catphile5 at y...> 
wrote:

> So the question out there is:
> Why do the Malfoys like Snape so much?  You'd think they would 
despise
> every bit of Snape as one who has betrayed LV.  But Draco's affinity
> for SS seems genuine.  It just doesn't jibe.
> 

But do Snape and Lucius Malfoy actually *meet* in the books? I can't 
remember any scenes with them together. 

Yes, Snape does favor Draco, but it could be anything from genuine 
affection for Draco as teacher's pet to outright manipulation in 
hopes of staving off Lucius Malfoy's wrath.

As to the legal wrangling, wizarding society seems a few centuries 
behind the Muggle one, so the court system could be much less fair 
and open than one might suspect, and the Death Eaters could have been 
subjected to secret trials. That's the only way I can think of Snape 
being cleared and yet not have his status as Death Eater and spy come 
out -- which it hadn't, since Sirius said he'd never heard about 
Snape as a Death Eater, even though Sirius suspected Snape and knew 
that most of Snape's schoolfriends had gone Dark.

AnneL