the mind link / Diary!Tom / wizard divorce / Draco / the Prince's book /

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 180814


> 
> Potioncat wrote in
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/180677>:
> 
> << Would things have gone any differently if Draco had quickly 
agreed
> [to DD's offer to hide him and his mother]? >>
> 

Catlady:
> Snape would have made it happen. I have faith in Snape's abilities. 
> If he'd accepted quickly enough, they could have all been off the
> Tower before the DEs got there. Maybe even in time to save DD's life
> from the green potion???

Potioncat:
Snape didn't hear the offer. It isn't likely Draco would have had 
reason to tell Snape. But, if Snape somehow learned of Draco's 
interest I agree, he would try to make it happen-- all the while 
appearing not to-- but that still leaves the question: Who would they 
go to? 

ZGirnius had an idea that Draco would have to go to Harry, because 
he's the only Order member who heard DD make the offer.

> 

> Catlady:
> Except when Harry tried the Sectumsempra curse. And if he had tried
> every spell in the book, how many others would have horrified him? 
The
> Prince's book is no proof that young Sevvie was not interested in 
Dark
> Magic.
> 
> << It reminds me again of the excuse given that James didn't like
> Severus because Severus was into Dark Magic. >>

Potioncat:
We saw in DH that James and Sirius took a dislike to Snape well 
before any Dark Magic came up. So while Snape may have been (ok, was) 
interested in Dark Magic, that wasn't why they didn't like him at 
first.

Now that DH is over, I still maintain that in many cases Dark Magic 
is whatever someone else does, what I do is not Dark Magic--You know, 
I'm just a social drinker, but you're a lush. 

Given what we know about young James from Lily and others---I think 
if he and Severus had been Housemates, they would have followed a 
close path. Who knows, maybe James would have been a DE too, or maybe 
Severus would have been in the Order.

And Lily would probably be Mrs. Longbottom. ;-)




> Catlady:
> Also, Harry didn't find anything in the Prince's book about wanting 
> to join the Death Eaters when he left school, and apparently young
> Sevvie really was planning on that -- in one of his post mortem
> memories, Lily denounced him and his friends for planning to be 
Death
> Eaters and said like something like "see, you're not even trying to
> deny it".  

Potioncat:
I'd still like a good explanation for the appeal of DEs to Severus. 
The closest I can see, is that in school he doesn't see any 
difference between what Gryffindors do and what Slytherins do. I 
don't see how he could have loved Lily the way we know he does, and 
not have been worried about her much sooner.