[HPforGrownups] Snape&Lucius (was Re: Room for Debate)

[Ronin_47]

No: HPFGUIDX 164738

>> Magpie: 
I'd love to find out what their relationship was like after all 
that! I definitely take Sirius at his word when he says Snape 
went around with a gang--though of course Sirius isn't objective 
about Snape and wasn't a close to him so wouldn't necessarily 
know what kind of a relationship they had. We've barely seen 
anything of Snape's past so wouldn't know about his friendships 
necessarily. If there were times where Snape was backed up by 
his friends they probably wouldn't be his worst memory.<<


--Ronin's Comments--
It is a very interesting subject and you've made a lot of good 
points. I had forgotten about Sirius's comment. It puzzled me 
though, that just after finishing up his OWLs, snape would be 
alone rather than talking with his friends about the test or 
just letting off steam after a long couple of weeks testing. 
Then, the fact that nobody did anything but watch and smirk 
while he was being humiliated. There were quite a few people 
present and yet he was the only Slytherin...

So, based on that I would guess that he was, as Sirius said, 
Lucius's lapdog. He would probably bide his time and study and 
practice rather than drawing attention to himself like Lucius 
would have done. It may be that he was jealous of Lucius as 
well, which is what would drive him to study and experiment with 
magic even harder so that one day he would be superior. Of course, 
this is just my speculation.

My guess about Draco is that after the trials, Lucius and Snape 
didn't associate as freely or publicly as they had while they 
were both DEs. So, Draco wasn't aware that Snape and his father 
were old friends. But Lucius probably mentioned Draco to Snape 
in a, "Please look after my boy at school", kind of way.

This whole subject is very interesting to me. I do hope that we 
are enlightened a bit on the subject in DH. Honestly, I wouldn't 
mind a re-telling of the entire story from the Slytherin's point 
of view.

Although this is the last installment of Harry Potter's story, 
there is so much to the world and characters throughout the story 
that some sort of spin-off series should be written at some point. 
At least, I think it would be a shame not to. 

Cheers,
Ronin