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

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 115699


 
> Carol responds:
> The problem with this view is that Sirius never saw Severus after 
they left school. He didn't know that the young Snape had become a 
Death Eater at about the same time that he (Black) joined the Order, 
or that Snape turned against Voldemort and was spying for Dumbledore 
before Godric's Hollow, or that he had been teaching at Hogwarts 
since about the time of the Potters' deaths. He may have known that 
Lucius Malfoy was a Death Eater, but certainly did not know that he 
had any contact with Snape.
> 
> In other words, Sirius Black's view of Severus Snape as Lucius
> Malfoy's "lapdog" must have been formed in the only time when he 
saw the two of them together--when he and Severus were in their 
first and second years at Hogwarts and Lucius was in his sixth and 
seventh.

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Potioncat:
I think it is very likely that Severus and Lucius knew each other at 
school and may have had a big kid--little kid connection.And we know 
from canon that Serius Black had no contact with Severus Snape after 
they left school as you state above.

But, by December of OoP, Black had been at Grimmauld place for 6 or 
more months and Snape had been making regular reports there.  So 
Black knows what Snape is doing.  It seems Snape is getting his 
information from Malfoy.  Either he has found some way to perform 
service to Malfoy in order to get closer.  Or perhaps, LV accepted 
him back into the DE ranks but put him under Malfoy's charge. So 
that as a DE he is working for Malfoy.

I think the lapdog dig refers to whatever Snape is currently doing 
for the Order with Malfoy. It reads to me as if Black is insulting 
Snape for his role--set by DD.  And Snape is insulting Black for his 
role--set by DD.  And both insults may reflect earlier situations as 
well.
Potioncat