[HPforGrownups] Outsider!Snape (NOT!) (Re: Bully!Sirius, Snape's Grudge)

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 43386


prefectmarcus wrote:


> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Irene Mikhlin" <irene_mikhlin at b...> wrote:
> > > Poor Severus just can't catch a break, can he, and JKR plays that

That wasn't me, it was Elkins, I think.

> 
> Snape trust Dumbledore and Dumbledore trusts Snape.  He trusts him 
> enough to include him in the secret of Sirius's dog form. 

We don't know what happened between
the end of PoA and the events in the end of GoF. You are right, they trust
each other (again?) and I'd like to be a fly on the wall when Snape and
Dumbledore discussed the events of PoA.

But I still very unhappy with the way Dumbledore dealt with it in PoA.
(Yes, I know, he didn't have time for something else... We have been there,
I believe).
It's not just the ending, it's the whole year. Lupin, in a sense, has been
helping Sirius to get in the castle - by withholding the information
about his animagus abilities. Dumbledore dismisses Snape's suspisions
time after time. If Harry will find it very hard to justify why he mustn't
tell things to Dumbledore in book 5, Snape is practically conditioned
to try it on his own again. 

Can you imagine Snape in GoF approaching Dumbledore with 
something like: "Headmaster, someone is brewing Polyjuice in this school.
Oh, and Moody just told me you gave him permission to search my office.
Silly man - he must be an impostor then".

> This is the core reason that I reject the theories of those who say 
> that Snape will be tempted to betray Dumbledore. 

I don't think he will. 

> How?  Snape just made a wild accusation based primarily upon 
> emotion.  It wasn't logical.  (Yes, it was true, but still it was 
> illogical.)  

WAY more logical than the kids' story. But it wasn't true.
Or are you talking about the Sirius escape accusation?

Pippin wrote:

>Do you really think so? I always thought when Dumbledore said, 
>"Unless you are suggesting that Harry and Hermione are able to 
>be in two places at once, I'm afraid I don't see any point in 
>troubling them further," he was telling Snape, "They used 
>the time turner to help Sirius escape, they had my approval, and 
>unless you're prepared to get me thrown out of Hogwarts along 
>with them, you had better shut up now." Which Snape does. 

Maybe you are right. Actually I really hope that's the right reading
of Dumbledore's behaviour. Because otherwise he was just
saying to Snape "Yes, Sirius is still my golden boy and I'll choose
him over you any day". Hard to reconcile with Snape's loyalty
the next year.

Irene