delayed reactions

[bluesqueak]

How many rhymes are there for spoiler?
Especially when Hogwarts has no boiler. 
For Moby Dick we could still use oiler,
But here we have to fall back on toiler.
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Kathy W wrote: 
> You know all those times that Snape just shows up (in all the 
books) 
> just in time to break up a Draco-Harry duel? In the early days I 
> thought he was really protecting Harry from Draco. Then I decided 
he 
> was protecting Draco from Harry. Now I'm wondering if he was 
looking 
> out for both boys? I cannot quite figure out why DD is offering 
> protection to the entire Malfoy family....not a nice bunch, you 
know?
> 

It might be because of Narcissa and Draco, especially if it turns 
out RAB was Regulus Black. That would make two of the Black clan 
repentant. So Draco's family history would suggest redeemability.

The point I wondered was whether Narcissa and Snape were once more 
than 'just good friends'. Draco has been clearly described as 
looking just like Lucius, so that isn't it, but Narcissa appears to 
be in the select bunch who know Snape well enough to call him 
Severus. And she can ask him to take the Unbreakable Vow, as well...

Given the Black purity thing, she couldn't marry a half-blood 
without being chucked out of the clan, but having once been in love 
with his mother might explain Snape's apparent fondness for Draco.

 There's an acronym in there somewhere, but I'm not good on those. 
:-)

 
Pip!Squeak
"Where do you think I would have been all these years, if I had not 
known how to act?" - Severus Snape