Shouldn't Snape hate Draco?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84555

Inge wrote:
> 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.


I can't see anyone getting Draco onto the good side now that his
father has been sent to Azkaban, even if it were possible before.
Draco has a real grudge to motivate him now, not mere malice lazily
directed at Harry and his friends. In any case, I'm not at all sure
that Snape's true feelings are reflected in his treatment of Draco, as
I indicated in my previous post.

Whatever the case with Snape and Draco, I'm certain that the
relationship between Snape and Draco's father is very important. I'd
like to know, for one thing, what Sirius meant by his "lap dog"
reference. It seems to me that the relationship between Lucius Malfoy
and Snape probably is not one of equals. Snape is five or six years
younger than Malfoy and could have been little more than a tag-along
in the year or two when they were both at Hogwarts. Also Snape earns
his living by teaching. Malfoy is like a nineteenth-century English
gentleman whose wealth was inherited and consequently considered
earning a living to be beneath him. I'm not sure whether Malfoy and
Snape were ever really friends, but I'd bet my Time Turner if I had
one that it was Lucius's influence that led Severus to join the DEs in
the first place.

Carol