[HPforGrownups] Son of Snape?

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 151737

barefootpuppets:
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.)

Magpie:
Draco's birthday is June 5th.

barefootpuppets:
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).

Magpie:
I can't imagine this story doing much for Harry, though.  It makes it have 
nothing to do with him or the Potters and Harry's not interested in either 
Snape or Malfoy's family line much at this point.

barefootpuppets:
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?).

Magpie:
Draco also looks very much like his father. His parents are both blond and 
pale, and Draco has his father's grey eyes rather than his mother's blue.  I 
believe the first time we meet Lucius Harry recognizes him as Draco's father 
because they look so much alike.  Snape is sallow, not pale.

barefootpuppets:
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.


Magpie:
I think he liked Lucius and as the years go by he likes Draco.  Fandom's 
solution has always had to do with Snape's spying with the idea that he's 
pretending to like Draco because that's part of his cover (and pretending to 
hate Harry too, sometmes) but I don't think Snape's very good at faking 
emotions.  They make an odd pair in some ways, but I buy it.  I think this 
is what's supposed to explain his interaction with Draco in HBP.  JKR was 
always reminding us that they seemed to have a personal relationship because 
she knew it would eventually be of some importance to the plot.

-m