Why Dumbledore trusts Snape -- a theory

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No: HPFGUIDX 42164

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Gail Bohacek" <gandharvika at h...> wrote:

Gail wrote-

> 
> And I say:
> 
> My personal pet theory is just the opposite...that Dumbledore saved 
Snape's 
> life when he was still a Death Eater...that having a life-debt to 
Dumbledore 
> wouldn't allow Snape to work for Voldemort any longer: therefore he 
started 
> to work for Dumbledore's side as a spy.
> 
I dunno, Peter Pettigrew has a life debt to Harry, but that didn't 
stop the little rodent from doing his master's bidding. When do these 
life debts kick in anyway? The situation in the graveyard was pretty 
dire.

Adia wrote-

> >Perhaps Dumbledore's desire to repay
> >Snape is the reason he is teaching at Hogwarts in the
> >first place?
> 
Possibly the still publicly unrepented DE Snape was an outcast who 
couldn't find work in the wizard community and had to turn to his old 
headmaster for a job.Dumbledore has employed a half giant,a werewolf, 
and a squib. And all, oddly enough, former students.

-Olivia Grey