Snape at Slughorn's Party

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 156964

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "UNIX4EVR" <unix4evr at ...> 
wrote:
>
> I'm re-reading HBP (actually reading it to my 7 year old at 
bedtime).  
> We were just reading about Slughorn's party which Draco crashes.
> 
> Snape is angry and upset to see Draco crash the party.
> 
> Why?

Magpie:
Well, remember Draco isn't crashing the party at all.  He was caught 
by Filch on his way to the Vanishing Cabinet and just gave going to 
the party as an invited guest as an excuse why he was out of bed. 
Once Filch actually drags him to the party to check he claims he was 
trying to crash.  The look of fear Harry sees on Snape's face is, I 
assume, because Snape knows Draco is working on killing Dumbledore 
in some way and he (Snape) is in the dark as to how, so can't stop 
him.

And Draco, of course, is trying to keep Snape from finding out.  
Given the Snape Draco thinks he knows, it's actually fairly 
reasonable for Draco to think this.  DE!Snape has no altruistic 
reason to do anything--DEs just try to win glory from Voldemort.  I 
like to also think Draco's having a breakdown in terms of all his 
previously trusted authority figures, and Snape is getting anger 
directed at him that's more properly directed at Draco's situation, 
atLucius, for everything.  Which Snape probably understands--but 
that still makes everything more risky, because Snape knows he's not 
in control of the situation.

-m