Why did Snape take the UV? / Role of the Malfoys

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 157351

> Magpie:
> Personally, I have to admit I find it more interesting to look to 
> the answers for this in Draco and Snape rather than an outside 
twist 
> like Snape being in love with Narcissa.  If Snape is the DE Draco 
> believes he is, than he'd be a fool to trust him no matter how much 
> he's trusted him in the past.  DEs stab each other in the back for 
> glory, and DE Snape, if he exists, would want Draco to fail.  Plus, 
> if Draco's beginning to have second thoughts about the whole idea 
of 
> working for LV, he'd have lots of emotional reasons to want to run 
> from Snape.  Everything from not wanting Snape to see his doubts 
> because he's ashamed and considering Snape sort of an enemy as a 
DE. 
> Thematically, of course, I think it's just a matter of Draco 
growing 
> up and needing to do things on his own because he does, and going 
to 
> a grown-up isn't something he feels he can do.  Harry's 
demonstrated 
> this sort of thinking before.   
> 

Neri:
But Draco apparently trusts Auntie Bella to teach him Occlumency. Why 
her and not Snape? Granted, Bella is a relative, but she also kills 
relatives and proud of it. She's that crazy fanatic from Azkaban that 
Draco has never even met personally until a few months ago. She's 
obviously ready to sacrifice Draco's life if it's in the service of 
the Dark Lord. Dad and Mom don't like her very much. And she's not 
even in very good relationships with the Dark Lord at the moment. Why 
trust her and not Snape, the long time friend of the family, Draco's 
ally for years, who took an Unbreakable Vow to look after him, and 
indeed saves his life? 

And when Draco finally manages to fix the vanishing cabinet, whom 
does he call? Blondie, Brutal Face, Gibbon, Alecto and Amycus. Does 
he even know these uncouth fellows? Wouldn't *they* stab him in the 
back for glory? Why should he trust them but not Snape, who is in on 
the mission, authorized by the Dark Lord himself? Who is right there 
at Hogwarts? Who has to guard Draco's life under the pain of death? I 
think something doesn't add up here.

Yes, Draco is suddenly resentful towards Mom in HBP, but why is that? 
Just growing up and wanting independence? When Dad is in jail and the 
whole family is in mortal peril? Is there a reason why Draco has 
suddenly lost his trust in anyone close to him?

Neri