Snape and the Map (was: Re: Thoughts on PoA Snape & What Snape

[David <dfrankiswork@netscape.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48378

Eloise wrote:

> It also highlights what I regard as one of the more obvious of 
JKR's 
> plot manipulations.
> I cannot, for the life of me work out why Snape didn't tell 
> Dumbledore about the Map. 

Well, one possibility is that Snape fears that Dumbledore would 
legitimise Harry's possession of the map.  He's passed him an 
invisibility cloak and let him off broken rules before.

He may also mistakenly believe that Dumbledore already knows as he 
was close to James and Sirius.

He has to balance the benefit of Dumbledore generally knowing what's 
going on against the risk that a policy for dealing with Harry that 
he believes is wrong being further entrenched.

David