James and Snape. Was. Re: Snape and Harry again.

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 113385

Nora:
 I'm expressing this absolutely horribly, but I think 
the hints may point to an earlier, rather than a later (your  
scenario) connection with the gang of Slytherins and other 
related  persons.
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> Alla:
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> I like that. A LOT. I am also very troubled by "Malfoy's lapdog" 
> comment. Now let see if JKR does. :)

Pippin:

I think I follow the idea, but Sirius never says that Malfoy was a 
part of that gang of Slytherins, does he? Sirius could certainly 
have found out that Snape had gone to work for, say, a Malfoy 
potion-making interest, without having direct social contact. That 
would put Snape in position to supply Lucius with those poisons 
Lucius was disposing of in CoS.

They wouldn't need to be contemporaries at Hogwarts to know 
one another. The WW is a small one. Sirius would certainly have 
met Lucius socially -- maybe  Lucius has an ugly old sister and 
Black's family were planning to marry them off <g>. Or Sirius 
might have encountered Lucius as a member of the Hogwarts 
Board of Governors, just as Harry did. It's annoying that we don't 
know exactly what the Marauders were doing for the Order.

> Alla:

> I just thought of Pippin's earlier comment that Snape is not a 
kind  of person to join gangs. I don't know. I think him following 
MWPP is a pretty good indication of him wanting to join their 
gang.<

Pippin:
We're told James was everything Snape wanted to be. It could 
have been hero-worship, like Colin Creevy, or just a sense that 
James was where it was at.

Pippin