Son of Snape?

[barefootpuppets]

No: HPFGUIDX 151729

No, no. This is not another post about how Snape is really Harry's
father
 My question is this:  Is Lucius really Draco's father? Could
it be that Snape is actually the father of Draco Malfoy?

Crazy sounding? Consider


Narcissa went to Snape directly when Draco's life was threatened.
(HBP, Spinner's End) Could, perhaps, it be that they had an illicit
affair? Narcissa's relationship with Snape (half-blood) would have
been forbidden.

Could Snape have gone to Dumbledore to ask him to be the Secret-Keeper
for his son's true identity? (The reason Dumbledore knows that Snape
is on the "good side.") My understanding of a Secret-Keeper is that
the secret is only known to those who the Keeper has told – perhaps
even Narcissa would have been affected and believed that Lucius was
the father. We also know that Snape is a skilled Occlumens/Legilimens
and would likely have been able to hide his true thoughts from
Voldemort where others could not.

A lot of the storyline has re-emphasized over and over again that
Draco is pure-blood.  Wouldn't it be ironic if he really wasn't? (Just
like something JKR would do!)

This also follows the pattern of "love conquers all" that JKR is so
fond of.

Snape could have discovered that Narcissa was pregnant shortly after
he listened at the door at The Boar's Head (Dumbledore's meeting with
Trelawney). Perhaps he was worried that the child, also due at the end
of the seventh month, might be the one that the prophecy spoke of. (We
don't really know Draco's birthdate BUT he didn't take his apparition
test and was in Potions on the same day as Harry stayed back from
taking the test in HBP.) Or perhaps he just had a reality check and
was worried about repercussions against him since Narcissa was
pure-blood and was to only marry another pure-blood. Perhaps he didn't
want his son to grow up in violence as he did (the vision in OoP where
his father was a violent and brutal man).

Also note: 

Draco looks like his mother (when Harry saw him at the World Cup in
GoF). But we also hear references to him being "pale" (like Snape?)


Snape's favortism – this has always been attributed to Draco being a
Malfoy and a Slytherin
what if there were other reasons?

This would explain a lot of Snape's behavior in HBP in connection with
Draco.

I am sure there are more
I'd love some feedback on this theory
(perhaps it sounds crazy, and rather hair-balled, but I like it).

Cheers,
Heidi R.