Shouldn't Snape hate Draco? Is JKR giving us a hint by having him not?

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Why does Snape hate Harry? Because he hated James and Harry reminds 
him of James. Following that, shouldn't Snape despise Draco? I mean, 
Harry's father was an asshole to Snape, but Draco's dad is a DE! And 
Snape's the anti-DE, in some ways, more than DD is. I think Snape's 
the ultimate anti-DE because he went through it; the most fervent 
are often those who experienced that which they're fighting against. 
But in any case, Snape's waging a war against Lucius, yet Draco's 
his favorite? What the hell?!

It seems to me that there must be something else going on here. What 
could make Snape favor the child of a DE? I can think of a few 
things:

-Snape is still working for LV.
-Snape doesn't know Lucius is a DE.
-Snape simply needs someone to favor in each year, and Draco's the 
most promising, future DE or not.
-Draco is Snape's sex toy, and as such, gets preferential treatment.
-Snape wants to train a replacement -- a Slytherin who can do work 
for the Order. Who better than the son of one of LV's right-hand 
men, provided he can convert Draco to the good side?

The first I refuse to believe. No! Snape is good! He's a dickhead, 
but he's good! The second is simply silly -- Snape was a DE, after 
all. How could he just have *missed* Lucius in the throng of 
evildoers? And even if he had, DD knows, and I doubt he'd keep 
anything from Snape he wasn't keeping from Harry. The third is 
possible but doesn't square with my ideas about Snape's moral code. 
The fourth is not going to appear in a children's novel for a LONG 
time, if ever.

But the fifth . . . ah! Could that be it? It would certainly be 
interesting. It opens up all sorts of possibilities for Draco's 
behavior -- is Draco ESE or is he pretending? Is he already setting 
up his spy behavior in some capacity; that is, making himself appear 
to be ESE so as not to arouse the suspicions of others? Granted, it 
doesn't mesh with the picture of Draco we have, but if it's all an 
act, we might not know Draco at all. JKR has done that before with 
characters. Could Draco be similar to Barty Crouch, Jr. in a way, 
except without the Polyjuice and evilness? I think it would be 
really interesting. And then if Draco were to die, he could even die 
doing something good.

I do believe that Draco is ambitious, but if he sees the future in 
being aligned with DD & Co., not LV, ambition and doing good stuff 
aren't even mutually exclusive. Has he already a stomach for murder? 
I don't know that he does. And stuff. I may just be grasping at 
straws, but I wonder what the basis of Snape's affection, if it can 
be called that, for Draco is.

What do you think? What other possibilities for Snape's liking of 
Draco are there? Do you think Draco's set in his ESE ways? 

Cheekyweebisom, who really doesn't want Draco to be ESE, because she 
thinks it would be the single most boring choice in the history of 
writing and, for that matter, oral tradition.