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

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 115255

Dharma:

> feklar wrote:
>
> I always thought the LM/SS childhood relationship was fannon and
> the lapdog comment referred to LM being an infamous and powerful
> DE. I think SB thinks LM was probably as powerful as a DE as he
> clearly is in everyday life, and Snape was probably a potions-
> making nobody much as he is in real life.
>
> Hannah:
>
> No, I think there's more to it than that.  Note Snape's
> favouritist treatment of Draco (even more so than of other
> Slytherins), the way Draco speaks to Snape, and that Lucius
> speaks 'most highly' of Snape to Umbridge.

feklar:

I also think all of this could be explained if SS became involved with the
pureblood elitists towards the end of his HW years.  It seems far more
likely to me that a 18 yo and 23 yo would be friends than a 11 and 16 yo.  I
think it is possible they are friends, at least socially, but Sirius can't
imagine anyone wanting to be polite (much less friendly) with Snape, so in
his mind the only possible relationship is of Snape as lapdog.

> Dharma replies:
>
> Hannah, I like what you are offering up here.  I think that Feklar
> was really questioning/objecting to my assertion that it was a
> *school* relationship.  To me you guys both seem to be on to
> something. I'm wondering if they could have had an idol/fan or
> student/mentor relationship that started at a young age and
> continued, leading to Snape becoming a Death Eater?

Feklar:

Yes, not just you, but many writers and posters seem to take it as a given
they were friends (or had a relationship of some sort) in school, while it
seems to me a bit more likely that it would have started after Lucius
graduated.  I also think it's possible they knew each other though family or
social gatherings, but that doesn't mean they have much interest in talking
to each other.  When I see my 13 yo cousin, he barely says two sentences to
me before burying himself in a book or video game.  I can't blame him
though--I don't have much to talk to him about either.

Feklar