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

[Ronin_47]

No: HPFGUIDX 164768

--Celia wrote--

>>>My point being, I think it is possible that Narcissa or Lucius or 
Regulus may have been a "friend" of Severus during school, but that 
might not mean they would be willing to stick their neck out for him 
in a situation like the post-OWLS humiliation. And if we know one 
thing for sure about our dear Severus, it is that he knows how to 
shut of his emotions from connecting to anyone else and is very 
protective of himself (occlumency *and* legilimancy, after all), so 
his version of "friendship" may be very limited. 
<<<




--Ronin's comments--

Interesting ideas. Maybe Narcissa was friends with Snape before Lucius, in a non-romantic way. It could even be Snape that introduced her to Malfoy. Since she is a relative of Sirius's, I wonder if Snape didn't make friends with several of Sirius's relatives since they all had their hatred for Sirius in common and were all members of Slytherin.

I was thinking of the post-OWLs confrontation more on the terms of other Slytherins standing up for the house of Slytherin. Not so much sticking their necks out for Snape, but for the house's reputation on the whole.

At that time, Snape was only a 5th year. I don't think he would've mastered occlumency or legilimancy yet. But I'm sure he had a very thick skin since we've also seen that his home life wasn't much different. It's probably where he learned to be so effective at molding students into such fine young  witches & wizards.

Cheers,
Ronin

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