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

[Inge]

No: HPFGUIDX 84475

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nibleswik" <nibleswik at y...> 
wrote:
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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?
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1) From the way Snape tells Harry: "Yes, that's my job!" (spying on 
the DE's) I can only conclude (knowing Snape and knowing Rowling's 
tricky writing) that he is NOT the one spying on Voldemort and the 
DE's.
But I don't think he's still working for LV either. I just don't see 
how he could.

2) Snape knows very well that Lucius turned up at the graveyard when 
LV summoned the DE's because Harry told him so. We still need to 
figure out though why it surprised Snape that Lucius was there.

3) Snape knows that Draco despises Harry and that might be one 
obvious reason Snape favors Draco.

4) That's cute. But unlikely. It would be just too easy for Snape to 
go for Draco - Im sure he'd want more of a challenge - say Hermione 
maybe? :-)

5) If Draco really likes Snape and trusts him - then it would be a 
very good reason for Snape to keep favoring Draco. Snape might be the 
one to eventually get Draco on the 'good side' - depending of course 
how the relationship between Snape and Lucius has been in the past 
and what it will be like in the future.

Inge