Son of Snape?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154194

Seon wrote:
> I've been wondering about this ever since JKR said that Snape did
not have a daughter and that he had been loved by someone. If Snape
has a son and we've already met him then my money is also on Draco.

<snip> but it's not just that Narcissa rushes to Snape that makes me 
> suspicious, but the way she is with him. I don't have HBP to hand, 
> but quote Carol:
> 
> Carol wrote (#152462) 
> >Clearly Narcissa--proud, rich, beautiful, pureblood Narcissa--
doesn't consider him repellant in HBP, shedding tears on his chest,
putting her face close to hers [his], seizing her hand in both of his
and kissing it. <snip>

Carol responds:
Aah! Is this some sort of Karmic retribution for my coming up with the
acronym for Neri's ACID POPS theory? All I meant by this quotation is
that even Narcissa doesn't consider Snape repulsive, or anything close
to it. I didn't mean to suggest that she's in love with him, much less
that he's Draco's father.

The physical resemblance between Draco and Lucius is very
marked--pointed face, pale blond hair, grey eyes that are sometimes
narrowed in contempt or hatred. Even their drawling voices are
similar, though admittedly a drawl could be an acquired trait. Snape,
in contrast, has black eyes and black hair. There ar no references to
his chin as pointed or to Draco's nose as hooked.
> 
Seon wrote:
> Also, Snape and Draco are both skilled Occlumens
> As Heidi points out, Snape favours Draco in his classes and Draco 
> says Snape is his favourite teacher 

Carol responds:
I wouldn't call Draco a "skilled" Occlumens. Snape immediately detects
his rather crude and somewhat delayed attempt to block Snape's
Legilimency (he even announces that he's doing it). Snape, in
contrast, is a "superb Occlumens" who can conceal thoughts and
memories from LV without LV knowing he's doing so (apparently he can
control what LV sees, and only those memories that would reveal the
lie as a lie are blocked). If Draco attempted to use his
unsophisticated Occlumency against Voldemort, he wouldn't live long.
(I'm surprised that Bellatrix, who wears her emotions on her sleeve,
knows enough Occlumency to teach it to Draco.)

As for favoritism, Draco is the son of Snape's old friend, Lucius
Malfoy, so Snape and Draco may well have known each other before Draco
started school (which would explain his use of Draco's first name).
And it appears that Draco is good at Potions and likes the subject,
which could only help the relationship. (Note that it falls apart a
bit when Snape starts teaching DADA, a subject Draco holds in
contempt--though admittedly, Draco is also withholding information
from Snape and the mentor/pupil relationship is on rocky ground
through the whole book because of Snape's "interference" with Draco's
plan.)

Seon:
<snip> A friend of mine suggests that Snape 
> is Draco's godfather (setting up a nice symmetry with Harry & Sirius 

Carol:
Now this I'd be more likely to buy except that it seems unlikely that
Lucius and Narcissa would give their son a Christian baptism. There's
a similar Wiccan ceremony, I believe, so they might have chosen him
as, say, a guardian if anything happened to them. Still, Narcissa
would surely have brought up this relationship if it existed. (I do
see parallels between the wording of the UV, which asks Snape to
protect draco and act as a sort of guardian, and the Anglican
baptismal ceremony, which I pointed out some time ago in a post that
could probably be found using the Advanced function of our supposedly
improved search engine.)

However, if we're going to see parallels between Draco and Snape on
the one hand and Harry and an adult mentor on the other, I'd say the
similarity is closer to the Harry/Dumbledore relationship (despite
Snape's being some 115 year DD's junior) than to the Harry/Sirius
relationship, which is more like an older and younger brother. Even
the rift in the Snape/Draco relationship in HBP to some degree
parallels the friction between Harry and DD in OoP.

Carol, wondering if Neri would be so kind as to provide a link to his
original post on the Snape/Narcissa SHIP (on which I don't sail
despite having given it a name)