[HPforGrownups] Re: Don't the Death Eaters know that Snape's a spy?

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 106692

In a message dated 7/17/2004 10:26:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
aggie at raggie.freeserve.co.uk writes:
Although I agree that Lucius and Snape *are* old school friends, I do 
wonder how Lucius doesn't realise how close to DD Snape is. 

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Sherrie here:

I've been thinking - WERE Lucius and Severus that close in school?

It's established in OotP that Lucius is 41 years old - that makes him four or 
five years older than Sev.  True, they WERE at school together in the sense 
that they were housemates - but Lucius was at least a fourth year when Sev 
arrived.  How much attention would Lucius have paid this scrawny, greasy kid?   I 
doubt Harry could even name most of the first year Gryffindors in his fourth 
year - other than the annoying Dennis Creevey, of course.

Unless...the Snape and Malfoys families were close when they were small?  
Perhaps both the sons of first-generation Death Eaters - those school friends of 
Tom Riddle who were the first to learn the name Lord Voldemort?

Hmmm...

Sherrie
(who's been thinking FAR too much lately)


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