Questions concerning Snape and Lucius

[Anne(Anja)]

No: HPFGUIDX 56856

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan XG" <SusanXG at h...> 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?
> 

The relationship between Draco and his father is a pretty interesting 
topic. In CoS one gets the impression that Lucius is , in fact , 
everything but a loving father. For me , it is no surprise that Draco 
grew into such a nasty little kid . He repeats everything he hears at 
home , probably hoping that this will win him the love and attention 
of his father . 
For sending Draco to Durmstrang , I strongly doubt that Lucius 
actually planned to do something like that. He may have mentioned it 
once in front of Draco because he was angry about Dumbledore , 
however , this doesn't mean he really meant it. I think Lucius is 
very much interested in making Draco hate the "good guys" like 
Dumbledore , Harry , etc. 
This gives me the impression that he is already groomed to be a 
future DE.  



> 
> 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?
> 

I believe that Snape (probably along with Dumbledore) already 
suspected that Harry was a Parseltongue and thought the Dueling Club 
a good opportunity to confirm his suspicions. Beside , he probably 
despised Lockhart and therefore wanted to expose him as an arrogant 
idiot. 
BTW , don't you think it to be quite strange that Snape , who calls 
wand-waving silly , is so good at it ?



> 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?
> 

We know almost nothing about the relationship between Lucius and 
Severus since we have never seen them talking to each other. The only 
thing we have is the sudden movement Snape makes after Harry mentions 
Malfoy's name . It seems very unlikely that they had been friends at 
school since Sirius would have probably mentioned Lucius among 
Severus's friends. Don't ask me why , but I somehow have the feeling 
that Lucius is older than Severus (although it looks a bit different 
in the movies).
Maybe they met through their families , maybe at the DEs , we don't  
know that for sure. 
If the Snapes are (like the Malfoys) one of the rich , pureblooded 
Wizard families it is very likely that they met each other on some 
occasions. A friendship might have developed and in the end , Lucius 
managed to persuade Severus to become a follower of Voldemort as 
well.  This is my take on this but I have to admit that it is not 
very convincing.  I am sure JKR has a better idea on this ;-)

    Anja