[HPforGrownups] Questions concerning Snape and Lucius

[Anne NGUYEN HOANG]

No: HPFGUIDX 56852

Susan XG wrote :

> Okay, I have a few questions about Snape and Lucius.
>
> 1) Why did Lucius want to send Draco to Durmstrang when he's a alumnus 
> of
> Hogwarts? Is it really because he wants Draco to be immersed in the 
> Dark
> Arts completely or is it because he wanted him out of the way? Back in 
> CoS,
> it was mentioned that Lucius told Draco to stay out of the way during 
> the
> Chamber controversy. Why? And it's known that Lucius used the whole "I 
> was
> under the Impervius curse", in order to get out of any charges 
> regarding his
> allegiance with Voldemort. Was it because he wanted to be a father to 
> Draco
> (who was only 1 year old when Voldemort was defeated). Did Lucius want 
> to
> send him away to possibly protect him? Or is Lucius so evil that he 
> doesn't
> really care about his own child and that he's just breeding him to be a
> Death Eater?
>

We don't know if Lucius really wanted to send his only son far away 
from England. We only heard Draco saying that his father is friend with 
Karkaroff,  and that the only reason he's not in a school in which the 
headmaster will be technically his best buddy is that his mother loves 
him too much to let him go....

Firstly, In that scene, I only see a child talking big about himself, 
aka my father knows important persons and has enough power to not chose 
Dumbledore's school.

Secondly, Few posts ago, someone talks about a MoM's official program, 
I don't know if english wizards can skipped the official education at 
Hogwarts. We know that student can be expelled (Hagrid) but I do think 
you need a graduation made by Hogwarts if you want to exercice an 
important job like apparently Lucius does.

There's a general mistrust between the different countries (GOF, the 
triwizard tournament, and the quidditch world cup scenes both show us 
that there's a certain bad mood toward "the stranger"), IMHO, people who 
graduated from outside school can't have high reponsability jobs. By 
example, a topstudent from Dumstrang can't have Arthur Weasley's job.

So Lucius wouldn't want something like that for his heir.

And finally, admitting Draco stupidly repeating his father's words 
there would be two solutions :
- Lucius told his son that to show him his power, but never think about 
it seriously. Lucius and his whole family had been in Hogwarts in the 
house of Slytherin, why would he send Draco to another school? After 
all, English wizards surely think it's the best school of the world 
(isn't it, Hermione ?)
- Drago forget the punition part of the sentence. "If you broke once 
again another new broom, I will send you at Dumstrang, I have a 
friend who will take of you, very seriously, so go now and brush your 
teeth....."


>
> 2) Why did Snape agree to be Lockhart's assistant for the Dueling 
> Club? Whas
> it because he wanted to show Lockhart up? Did he want to manipulate it 
> so
> Malfoy would duel Harry? Did Dumbledore encourage Snape to participate?

Because even a few people think on that list *grin* Snape is a 
responsible teacher. I bet he heard about Lockhart wanting to take care 
of the duelling club. He didn't want to see dead students, and asked 
him if he can replace him. The silly Lockhart being a big mouth, 
turned that proposition into a assistant's deal.


>
> 3) What is the nature of Snape and Lucius' relationship? Are they just
> simply co-Death Eaters or does it go deeper than that? Are they 
> related?
> Cousins maybe? Does Snape stay close to the Malfoys because he wants to
> protect Draco from Voldemort? To spy on the Malfoys because Lucius is 
> one of
> Voldy's high ranking DEs?

IMHO, your question wants more an answer with speculation than an 
answer based on canon. So there's technically as many answers as stars 
in the sky.

I think it's a one side friendship on both sides!  They seem to be 
both manipulative about that they feel for each other. On the other hand 
Snape seems trully surprised when he heard about Lucius at the 
graveyard with Voldemort. Maybe he thought that Voldemort didn't forgive 
Lucius about his "Pierre" attitude (the three denying before the 
sunrise in bible with the christ) and was surprized that Lucius was 
with Voldemort _and_ alive

Annechan