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

[Porphyria]

No: HPFGUIDX 43416

I interpreted this line as Dumbledore mocking Snape:

 >"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"

And Pippin and Eloise agreed that this was actually Dumbledore sending a 
coded message to Snape to keep him from pushing the matter any further in 
front of Fudge.

Pippin said:

> Thus the twinkle in Dumbledore's eyes. He knows that Fudge
> has all the facts at his disposal. The Ministry issued the Time
> Turner in the first place. With a little thought and a little digging,
> Fudge could solve the mystery, were he not distracted by the
> raving wizard screaming and spitting beside him, the
> prospective embarrassment of having to explain that the Ministry
> has let Sirius escape again and Buckbeak too, and
> the absurdity of the idea that the deranged youngster lying in
> bed, just recovering from a Dementor attack and obviously
> Confunded as well, could have had anything to do with
> it.
>
> Dumbledore's mockery is aimed squarely at Cornelius Fudge.

I agree with you that Dumbledore is sending a coded message to Snape 
saying "I helped Harry free Black with the Time Turner, so pipe down 
already in front of the Minister." And perhaps in Dumbledore's mind he is 
being a bit condescending towards the befuddled Fudge. But Snape is in no 
position to appreciate the clever trick Dumbledore has played on the silly 
ol' Minister. Snape is on Fudge's side here. They both want desperately to 
see Sirius dispatched. So if Dumbledore outsmarted Fudge, then he 
outsmarted Snape too. And the only difference is that Snape is sharp 
enough to realize he's been outsmarted, but Fudge isn't.  So if I think 
that if Snape interprets Dumbledore's remark correctly then he can't help 
but experience it as a betrayal since it so obviously indicates that 
Dumbledore sided with Harry and Sirius over Snape and Fudge. And when 
someone sends you a coded message that they've betrayed you, that's IMO 
basically mockery.

Maybe I am being too hard on Dumbledore, but at this point Sirius and 
Buckbeak are safely on their way, Fudge can be counted on to be dimwitted,
  and all AD has to worry about is making sure Fudge gets rid of the 
Dementors. It seems to me that if he wanted to he could have taken Snape 
aside and tried to say something reassuring, but he doesn't bother. Maybe 
he thinks it's a lost cause at this point in the evening. But it still 
strikes me as cavalier his being chipper in the face of Snape's obvious 
distress, and being happier to let him storm off than to try to make any 
attempt to calm him.

~Porphyria, who still doesn't know why webview thinks it's a good idea to 
breaks lines where she puts apostrophes