... Lackey or Equal?: Snape's favorism

[Julie]

No: HPFGUIDX 90225

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
Steve said
> I think Snape favors Draco for a variety of reason <snip> Draco is 
not Harry, Draco doesn't like Harry, etc.... 

I think you have a very important point here.  Regardless of whether 
Snape genuinely likes Draco or not (or Lucius), this ongoing feud 
between Draco and Harry would catch Snape's attention.  Snape hated 
James Potter (it seems with good reason), and said somewhere that 
Harry was becoming very arrogant like his father, breaking rules as 
if he had a special dispensation, or something to that effect. 

Not to say I think Harry's perfect or his life & choices aren't hard, 
but I can totally see Severus Snape saying to himself "finally, 
someone who doesn't shamelessly fawn over the Potter brat," and doing 
everything he can to promote Draco, one of his Slytherins, over Harry 
Potter. Heck, he might have favored a Ravenclaw or a Hufflepuff over 
Harry if there was one handy.  

What's going to be interesting in the next couple of books is whether 
Snape or anyone else finally has the sense to step in and try to 
lower the anomosity level.  The two boys have become so locked into 
their roles as enemies that they don't think about it any more.  

If nothing else, if Snape gets a chance to step back and think, he 
might recognize in Draco's and Harry's little war, some of the same 
elements, it has been proposed, that made up at least part of his own 
decision to join the Death Eaters as a way back at (or to be safe 
from) a certain gang of Gryffindors.  If nothing else I assume Snape 
would want to prevent the young Slytherins, including Draco, from 
becoming casualties when Voldemort falls.

Someone use wisdom, please!

Julie