Snape and Lucius Malfoy

[Marci]

No: HPFGUIDX 86021

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> 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

In the 'Padfoot Returns' chapter of GOF, Sirius tells 'Harroninny' 
that Snape "was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned 
out to be Death Eaters."  He's said to have been fascinated with the 
dark arts while at school, and knew more curses than even 7th years.

Marci