Snape eating or not eating

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No: HPFGUIDX 68680

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kirstini" <kirst_inn at y...> 
wrote:
> <Snip lots of reasons why Snape is never seen eating at Grimmauld 
> Place: Vampiracy, Suspiscion, Pureblood conventions, Florence in a 
> flowery pinny holding Little Sev, eating with his dear old mum 
> instead>
> 
> I think that someone proposed another reason when this topic came 
up 
> immediatly post-OoP, concerning warrior culture. The theory was 
that 
> Snape wouldn't eat/accept hospitality at the house of his enemy, 
> because that would put him in said enemy's debt. Another one 
> suggests itself to me too: he simply didn't like the company. The 
> only person we see him having any sort of interaction which could 
> possibly be construed as friendly with at all is McGonagall, and 
she 
> only made one visit to Grimmauld Place over the summer (evidence 
for 
> a possible Mr McGonagall? I do hope he's called William). It would 
> be very difficult for Snape to maintain his strange and not-
terribly-
> wonderful relationship (for whatever reason it exists) with HRH 
> after crushing a cup of wine with them. 
> 

Plus--he has a job to do. Remember what Lupin said when he and Black 
were bemoaning how little they could do? Black couldn't leave the 
house and Lupin wasn't a "popular dinner guest" (his words). Snape is 
likely BOOKED for dinner most of the time with the cronies he's 
spying on and the one's he's trying to get a feel for what side 
they're leaning towards. He's not just a spy, he's a lobbyist.
When he is free I go with the "never eat in the house of your enemy" 
idea. I can't imagine why he'd WANT to stay for dinner with that 
crowd. Perhaps if it were only the adults, but all the Weasly kids 
and later Potter? Eeyuuch!

Melpomene