Draco-the-godson-of-Snape

[hanfastolfe]

Just because Narcissa Malfoy says Snape knows Lucius well and is Draco's favorite teacher does not mean he's Draco's godfather. Let's take Draco first. Since Draco got to Hogwarts Snape has established a precedent of favoring Slytherins. To what extent this is an automatic House-favoring thing versus a deliberate deep-cover spying technique is not

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[vytresna]

Huh. I just now realized that the "watch over" clause doesn't need to imply help with the task, even if Narcissa meant it that way.

Looks as though Snape chose to interpret it that way too, though - I don't imagine people have much tested the boundaries of that particular enchantment.

[jodel_from_aol]

I think I may have finally discovered where this one came from. It isn't certain. But it loos suspiciously likely. The Snape/Narcissa theory is also tied in here.

The way the story (in its current iteration) goes is that someone is the friend of a friend of Tom Felton's family and that when the movies were getting off the ground, Rowling gave the young actor a character briefing in which she told him that he was Snape's godson and that Snape had once had a thing for his mother.

Well, the age difference between Snape and Narcissa is the same as between Harry and Fleur, so she *could* certainly have been his first teenage crush, even if she never realized it and it didn't last. And, for that matter, Snape *could* be Draco's godfather as unlikely as it seems.

But the fact that I can't recall this one ever making the rounds until *after* we had the Snape + Narcissa scene in Spinner's End in HBP when the movies have been around since 2001 makes me highly suspicious of it's veracity.

[hanfastolfe]

I think a lot of post-OotP fics have incorporated this angle, but the fact that a fair number of post-OotP fics have since come out after HBP was printed, makes it harder to decide if people heard the urban legend before, or just read it in due to the Snape + Narcissa scene.

And who thinks (like the essay on the HP Ink Pot implies) that Snape was SO played by Narcissa? Remember the old one about the high school cheerleader getting the class nerd to do her homework for her?

Same idea. :P

[jodel_from_aol]

Well, I take the reading that it was Snape leading that conversation, but whatever...

[hanfastolfe]

Even the best spies can still be taken in by beautiful women. Provided they swing that way, mind you. :P