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

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113697

> > Alla:
> > 
> > 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.<snip>
>

Carol:
As I keep on saying (but nobody seems to hear me), a lap dog is a
small pet. While I think it's perfectly possible (though wholly
speculative) that Malfoy could have set young Snape up with a potions
shop after Severus left Hogwarts (a perfect cover if Snape was making
immortality potions or poisons or whatever for Voldemort), the lap dog
comment probably refers to the earlier period--a little boy of about
eleven who hangs around a much older boy of sixteen or seventeen who
treats him as a prodigy and a pet.

Although we have no canon to prove that Malfoy was the leader of the
Slytherin gang, his age and his position with the DEs at the end of
OoP (just before his arrest) indicates that he's their natural leader.
Note that at least three people named as members of that Slytherin
gang are present (the three Lestranges), taking orders from Malfoy
(although Bella seems to see herself as second in command). Two of the
gang members, Wilkes and Rosier, are dead, so it's hard to say where
they fit in, but the idea that most of the gang members, including
Bellatrix's future husband, were about Bellatirix's age, or between
her age and Malfoy's, makes sense to me, with Snape, Lucius Malfoy's
little "lap dog," as the baby of the gang.

I agree with Nora that the gang members had probably all left Hogwarts
when the Pensieve incident and the so-called Prank occurred. Snape may
have joined the DEs in part just to be back with the people he
perceived as his friends.

Notice that Sirius tells Harry that almost all those people became
Death Eaters, but he doesn't know that Snape did, too. That suggests
that the others were already DEs while Snape and Sirius were still in
school.

Carol