Dumbledore doesn't like snape

[Lyda Clunas]

No: HPFGUIDX 20585

Catherine wrote:

> Well, I'm not going as far as to say that Dumbledore *likes* Snape, 
> but he, more than anyone, treats Snape with respect.

I'm going to go with MMM on this one, and go so far as to say that 
yes, Dumbledore does actually like Snape. And Snape likes Dumbledore 
as well.
  
> I think he obviously knows more about Snape than anyone - knows his 
> good points, 
> his bad points - and it seems clear that Snape actually did do 
> something to earn Dumbledore's respect and loyalty.  Therefore, 
> Dumbledore lives with Snape's excentricities,

I think Dumbledore, thanks to the Snape/MWPP rivalry, probably saw a 
good bit of Snape in his office during Snape's years at Hogwarts. I 
think that Snape, when he turned from the DEs, went to Dumbledore 
first. I believe that Dumbledore is quite perceptive about Snape; he 
does know things that others do not, and I think he kind of regards 
him as a sort of prodigal son. I think they share a trust and an odd 
friendship that we are readers from Harry's POV are really rather 
unaware of. 

> The DADA job.  I have never figured out why exactly Snape wants     
> this job.  He is described as being very skilled at potions, and   
> makes it 
> clear in the trio's first lesson, when he waxes poetical about the 
> beauty of the simmering cauldron, that he loves it.  He is the best 
> man for the job.  So why does he want to teach DADA? 

The DADA stuff is only rumors, and I suspect they are rumors 
encouraged by Dumbledore and Snape. If it seems to everyone that 
Snape really *does* want the job and that Dumbledore doesn't trust 
him with it (although this is false), then he appears by all accounts 
to still be interested in and faithful to the Dark Arts. It's part of 
the bluff.

Lyda