Why Snape didn't go to the infirmary

[mitchbailey82 <MITCHBAILEY82@HOTMAIL.COM>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48051

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maria Kirilenko 
<maria_kirilenko at y...> wrote:
> 
> This was mentioned a while ago: Why didn't Snape go to the hospital 
wing after Fluffy bit him?
> 
> Somebody said (can't find the exact message) that it's because he 
didn't want Madam Pomfrey to know he'd been to "visit" Fluffy, but 
that doesn't really make sense to me. Dumbledore obviously trusts 
Snape, so Snape shouldn't really be worried about what anybody else 
might think.
> 

Me:

I've always thought that this was used as an opportunity to show 
Snapes relationship with Filch.
Snape obviously trusts him (well enough to ask him for help with a 
injured leg)

I've also thought that the reason he didn't want to go to Pomfrey is 
because he wanted Quirrell to think that he (Snape) was working on 
his own (maybe for his own goals) and not necessarily with 
Dumbledore. 

The thing that strikes me at the end of PS is that although 
Voldermort knows that Snape was trying to stop Quirrell he doesn't 
have proof that Snape wasn't just working as a 'free agent'.

Michelle