The Snape-Malfoy connection

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 101751


> Trevor writes:
> 
> If I remember correctly somewhere in the canon it states that 
Lucius Malfoy was never accused of being a DE, he was well 
insulated and slimy enough to avoid association by the MoM.  He 
was just too smooth to get caught- LV says, "Lucius, my slippery 
friend, I am told that you have not renounced the old ways, 
though to the world you present a respectable face" (GoF 650 
US).
> Malfoy never faced the accusations and never renounced.
> 


Are you sure? GoF ch 36

"Malfoy was cleared!" said Fudge, visibly affronted. "A very old 
family -- donations to excellent causes--"

"Mcnair!" Harry continued.

"Also cleared! Now working for the Ministry!"

"Avery -- Nott -- Crabbe --  Goyle--"

"You are merely repeating the names of those who were 
acquitted of being Death Eaters thirteen years ago!" said Fudge 
angrily. "You could have found those names in old reports of the 
trials![...]"

Pippin