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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 43395

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Irene Mikhlin" <irene_mikhlin at b...> 
wrote:


> 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. 
<snip>
> 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".


There's a world of difference between dismissing someone's 
suspicions and insisting on the presumption of innocence  in 
the absence of proof, which is what Dumbledore does in CoS 
when Snape accuses Harry of Petrifying Filch's cat. That is what I 
assume Dumbledore was doing with Snape's accusations in 
PoA and GoF. In any case, it would hardly have been proper to 
discuss Lupin in front of Percy. 

As for GoF, if Snape tells Dumbledore about the night on the 
stair,  and I believe he did, what would it prove?

As Sirius says, it would be perfectly in character for Real!Moody 
to search people's offices. And Fake!Moody  doesn't actually 
state  that he had Dumbledore's permission to search Snape's 
office. He only implies it...a fine old interrogation tactic of which
I  am sure Real!Moody would approve.

As Snape himself says, potion ingredients go missing all the 
time. In the absence of other evidence, it would be far-fetched to 
suspect Moody, especially  since Sirius would have  told 
Dumbledore that the person in the office was Crouch. 

If  confronted about the potion ingredients, Fake!Moody  probably 
just laughed and said that if he wanted boomslang skin, he'd 
hardly need to burgle a teacher's office for it.

Of course Snape should've told Dumbledore about the Map, but 
then, it doesn't appear that Sirius did either. (Does the 
Intelligent!Map have a way of keeping people from talking about it 
with those who aren't in the know? It seems  the Diary did.)

Pippin