Snape and Lucius ages Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: "Lapdog" and "snivel"

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 115254

> Yb replies:
> Picture this: Little Sevvie comes into Hogwarts knowing plenty of
> hexes and curses and the like. Plus, he is a Potions professor, so
> he must have had a knack for brewing things. These sort of things,
> especially the hexes part, would show up rather early in his career
> at Hogwarts, like the first time some of the other students started
> teasing him about being thin, pale, and probably greasy-haired.
> Sevvie would fire a couple of hexes and send the tormentors running
> for cover, and little Lucius would take notice.


Feklar:

As I said, most of this is fannon or fanfiction.  I've read and liked a
number of stories featuring an early relationship between LM and SS.  But I
think JKR tries very hard to write about realistic kids and teenagers in
unreal situations.  I guess it seems to me that a lot of fannon
characterizations assume more mature motives and rationalizations than
really fit with JKR's characterizations.  It is indeed possible that LM was
as politically astute at 16 as at 41 and acted as head junior DE talent
scout and recruiter, but it's also possible he was a hormonal,
popularity-obsessed snob, who saw a greasy, little, snot-nosed kid Severus
and kept as far away as possible.

Like HAnnah, I also suspect young SS's dark knowledge may have been
exaggerated.  Sirius the adult is relating Sirius the kid's impression of
SS, it may be the 11 yo Sirius was stunned by an awesome bat-bogey hex, but
that's not what he remembers, what he remembers is that Snape came to school
knowing some nasty stuff.

Feklar