Snape falling for Narcissa? (was Narcissa the bait in the Unbreakable trap)

[Sherry]

No: HPFGUIDX 138549

Jen Reese wrote:

> What does she care if Snape goes down if it saves her own blood? 
> People always bring up Snape and Lily, and maybe it's true, but 
> Narcissa seems more like the kind of woman Snape would fall for. 
> She's pure-blood, 'respectable', wealthy, a Malfoy Manor type of 
> girl. 
> 


The same idea has occurred to me. I'm relieved to find out that it's
not just some distraction on my part! Snape is not a pure-blood, but
he was Sorted into the house that puts the greatest emphasis on
bloodlines. While Draco and his father, to name two Slytherin alumni,
stress their genealogy, Snape seems never to have done anything to
call attention to his! If anything, he probably downplayed it as a
student.

Lucius Malfoy is 6 years older than Snape
(http://www.hp-lexicon.org/timelines/main/timeline_1950-1970.html), so
he would have been in his last year when Snape was a first-year
student at Hogwarts. I don't recall reading any specific information
about Narcissa's age, but I assume she was in the same general
range--hence a schoolmate of Snape and likely a fellow Slytherin resident.

Snape may very well have developed a "crush" on Narcissa. I'm not so
sure whether she saw anything attractive in him or simply looked down
on him. Either way, she followed the expected route in her family, of
marrying a fellow pure-blood. How ironic that she turned to Snape for
help in Spinner's End!

Amontillada