[HPforGrownups] Lucius and the DEs

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 56901


a_rude_mechanical wrote:
> 
> A while back there was a thread about Snape's reaction to Harry's
> mention of Lucius at the DE reunion (at the end of GoF).  I wondered
> then if Snape was surprised that Lucius had returned to Voldie
> because perhaps he believed that Lucius had repented of his ways so
> to speak...My new thought is this: perhaps he truly did believe that
> Lucius was under the imperious curse those many years ago, and part
> of the reason he worked to bring Voldie down was to help friends that
> he believed were under a spell--only to find out differently when
> Harry gives the news?  No, Lucius isn't a great guy.  Yes, the
> Malfoys have an interest in the Dark Arts.  However, as you said,
> that doesn't necessarily make someone a DE.  Maybe he genuinely likes
> Lucius and had hoped that he told the truth about acting under the
> Imperious curse--sometimes being close to someone can cause us to be
> blind about them.
> 

I think Snape's reaction is because he KNEW Lucius is a DE and the very
fact that Harry mentioned him proved that Harry was indeed telling the
truth and not just making it up like Snape might have otherwise wanted
to believe.  He might have suddenly realized that Harry might have been
telling the truth all along about other things as well, which might have
caused him to see the boy in a different light after that.

Jazmyn