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

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 157459

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eddie" <harryp@> wrote:
> >
> > > Neri:
> > > [... lots of excellent logical reasoning snipped ...]
> > > I'd say it's pretty obvious that D has something against both N and 
> > > S. Something that must have occurred lately. 
> > 
> > Eddie:
> > Unless Voldemort -- er, person V, aka V-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named, aka
> > VHSNBN -- ordered Draco to keep it to himself, otherwise V would kill D.
> > 
> > Eddie
> >
> Carol responds:
> LOL, Eddie! But also, lest we forget, Draco (I mean, person D) is
> sixteen, and that last thing a sixteen-year-old boy wants is help from
> his mother, especially on an important mission that he thinks marks
> him as a man. He doesn't want his father-figure Head of House
> interfering, either, IMO, for more complex reasons that I've indicated
> in another post. "It's my job. He gave it to *me,*" Draco tells Snape
> in "the Unbreakable Vow." 
> 
> He rejects "interference" both from his mother and from his former
> favorite teacher *before* person V starts putting the pressure on and
> threatening him with death if he fails. And by that time, it's too
> late to ask for help. "No one can help me," he tells Moaning Myrtle
> when he's crying in the bathroom some four or five months after Snape
> tries to talk to him. 
> 
> What Snape would or could have have done if Draco had asked him for
> help, we can only guess. But it's quite possible that by the time
> Snape saves Draco's life, LV has made it clear that Snape must not
> know what  Draco is trying to do with the Vanishing Cabinets. Either
> that or Bellatrix has succeeded in convincing Draco that Snape is not
> to be trusted. Otherwise, surely, Draco would have gone to the teacher
> he has always trusted, the man who saved him from bleeding to death,
> even at the (supposed) cost of having his "glory" stolen--a delusion
> Draco clings to even on the tower.
> 
> None of this has anything to do with Snape and Narcissa having an
> illicit romantic attachment, or surely Draco would have confronted
> Snape with an accusation. 

Ken:

I think Carol has given a plausible reason for D's distance from S 
and N. However Neri could be right even if there is no S/N romance.
Every time Voldemort's Amazing Band Of Screw-Ups lives up to its 
billing S seems to profit by it. S probably has not been diplomatic
about L's fate when discussing it with D. D idolizes his father, this 
would be all it would take to make him angry with S.

As for N, well don't ask me how I know but wives can be unsympathetic
with husbands who have been hoist with their own petards. Again, D 
would not take this well. None of this precludes a S/N romance, it just
says that one is not necessary to produce the behaviour we see. I'd not
be surprised either way.

As for LV, if he really means to rule the world he should consider hiring
a better class of minion.

Ken