Draco and Narcissa in hiding (Was: Snape's future)

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 140683

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> Potioncat wrote:
> <big snip--see my previous post for responses to earlier portion>
> 
> > DD was offering sanctuary to Draco and his family. Did Snape know 
> that? Could it still be done? If Book 7 starts off with the news 
that
> Draco and Narcissa have been killed, don't believe it.

*(big snip again)*
> Carol, noting that the idea is not a theory but wondering if anyone
> thinks it has merit

Ceridwen:
I think it has merit.  I'm of the opinion that LV won't want Snape 
around any more - as has been mentioned, he's done what LV couldn't 
do, which makes him both dangerous to LV personally, and a 
distraction to any unsatisfied DEs.  He's also lost his primary value 
to LV's mission, that of being a spy at Hogwarts and in the Order, 
IOW, against DD.  I think he's sharp enough to know that, and won't 
go back.

He does seem to be protecting Draco as well as Harry, and seems to 
have more of a positive history with the Malfoy clan than he did with 
the Potters.  He has connections with the Order, or at least he did.  
Draco seemed to be considering Dumbledore's offer, so he may discuss 
it with Snape, or with his mother either in Snape's hearing, or 
Narcissa will bring it up to him.  I think Snape would advise Draco 
not to return to LV.  Draco may be as redundant as Snape, though he 
did prove himself to be of some use in getting the DEs into 
Hogwarts.  Spinner's End suggests that LV had no further interest in 
Draco than to punish his father by orchistrating his death.  He 
didn't die like he was supposed to.  LV doesn't like disobedience.

And, he probably wouldn't care for the UV being made, either, if he 
had no hand in it.  If Narcissa (and Bellatrix!) went behind his 
back, they're not exactly in favor any more, either.  And, just by 
going behind his back that way, I wonder if they're not as stuck on 
LV as they had been before the DoM battle.

The only way for them to get away from LV, and have no one searching 
for them to do them under, they would have to be dead, as Dumbledore 
stated.  *IF* it has been done before (RAB, Irma Pince?), it was 
successful.  And, Snape probably knows about it.

It would have to be a public, open-casket funeral.  And, some DEs 
must see the bodies to make it true for LV and the rest of the DEs.  
Having Bellatrix find them, as Carol suggested, would be great.  If 
she's staying under the floor at their house, she'd be in the perfect 
position to do it.

And, this would give LV and the DEs a Renegade!Snape.  Because, who 
else would Bellatrix believe to have done it?  There would be no 
struggle, at least for the first death.  He would be welcomed into 
their home as the person who spared Draco the necessity of doing what 
he couldn't do, and he's an old family friend.  Now, apparently, he's 
gone on a killing spree, apart from LV's orders.  Gone crazy?  Did he 
actually direct the DEs correctly about leaving Harry alive?  Or is 
that another bit of evidence LV will ponder, showing Snape's lost his 
mind?  He could still be believed by most or all to be ESE!Snape, 
just carrying out orders from LV which were never given to him.  
Loony as a moonbat.

The problem would be getting past any member of the Order's mistrust 
and suspicion, IMO.  Maybe clues will be put together, or there will 
be something from Dumbledore.  But, maybe not.  Which would lead to 
Snape, alone, and not the Order, managing the entire affair.  Which 
would be harder, since he doesn't have the resources of many people 
at his command, and his own home is probably watched either by DEs or 
Aurors or both.  I do think Snape could easily live in the Muggle 
world, if TS stuck around after the big explosion.  It wouldn't be 
alien to him.  Could Draco and Narcissa?

But, I've thought since the end of the book, that Snape wouldn't take 
Draco back to LV.  A public 'death' for him and his mother, then for 
Lucius if/when he's released/escapes from Azkaban, would be a handy 
way to avoid the complications of life on the run.

Which leads to another problem:  What about Snape?  Would he 'die' 
too?  Or, would he be out there, a raving, murdering lunatic, sought 
by both DEs and Aurors?  That would certainly complicate things for 
his plans, and for the Malfoys.

So, I have two basic problems with the idea: Getting around the 
Order's mistrust of Snape (Harry's vouching for what DD said on the 
Tower might help if Draco or Narcissa approached them, but not 
Snape); and, would Snape 'die' as well (who would 'kill' him?)?

Otherwise, I think it's quite possible this will happen.  If only to 
carry out DD's last idea from the Order's perspective.

Ceridwen.