Snape and Lucius Malfoy

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 85996

Hi everyone. Tried searching through the archives to see if anything 
along this line of reasoning came up and saw none so I thought I'd 
throw this out for discussion. I was thinking about Professor Snape 
today and I was wondering how he got introduced to the Death Eaters. 
I know that we have very little cannon about his family childhood 
(aside from the two pensieve scenes there have been no other 
mentions of Snape relatives or childhood experiences) so I wonder if 
his father was a Death Eater and introduced his son to the fold. 
(Which also brings up another point: maybe Snape leaving the DE's 
had to do with getting back at his father, who, from what little 
we've seen must have been an abusive personality. But that's another 
post.) Then I started thinking that perhaps he and Lucius Malfoy may 
have had a friendship of sorts while they were at Hogwarts. If 
Malfoy was 41 in OotP and Snape was around 38 then they would have 
been a few years apart and since they were both in Slytherin it is 
possible that Snape looked up to the older Malfoy. Could Malfoy (as 
pure a family as there ever was) have introduced the perhaps 
impressionable Snape to LV? Hero worship perhaps? Just a thought. 
Any ideas? 
Meri