back to Blacks was Re: Snape and DD

[mmmwintersteiger]

No: HPFGUIDX 147324

Lolita:
>If he had been 
> close to his Muggle father, why on earth would he join a movement 
> whose idea of fun was to torture Muggles?

That is an excellent point, Lolita.  I doubt Snape was close to his 
father either.  (IMO) A magically-gifted Snape would have associated 
much more with his mother's family, whom I'm sure said absolutely 
nothing good about muggles-including his father.  Ellen would have 
seen the potential of her son at a young age and I'm sure spent quite 
a bit of time early on teaching him about hexes and curses.  Since 
Ellen was "cross and sullen" most of the time I am sure it was an 
attitude that Snape adopted as normalacy and it affected him 
throughout his years as a student as well as a professor at Hogwarts.

La Gatta Lucianese:
>he seems to have remained quite close with L.Malfoy...the two 
> of them are still rather chummy 


I am quite curious about this relationship.  I am really hoping JKR 
goes into more detail here.  As a younger man maybe L.Malfoy was a 
bit more open to half-bloods, saw how brilliant Snape was at even a 
young age and wanted to take him under his wing.  I'm thinking they 
shared similar outlooks on life (dark, depressing outlooks) and 
easily bonded the way a mentor and his student would.  Out of that 
bond grew true friendship-of course this is all speculation.  I am 
thinking that this friendship has helped keep Snape a viable member 
of the DE and that L.Malfoy has vouched for him on more than one 
occasion.  I am curious to see what happens to this relationship 
should Snape truely be loyal to DD.

michelle