[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape mentioning Peter

[mrgrrrargh at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 34450

Marina:

> Seems unlikely to me also.  I think that if Snape turns out to be a
> loyal DE all along, it will seriously damage (if not completely
> destroy) most readers' respect for Dumbledore's intelligence and
> judgement, and I don't think JKR wants to go there.

The thing is, Dumbledore has been wrong in his choices of faculty before. 
Look at Lockhart. His resume was good, but he had done NOTHING. Dumbledore 
hired him none the less and then had Lockhart try to leave a student for dead 
and erase the memories of the other two. Then he hired Crouch-as-Moody, also 
someone who put students in serious jeopardy -- killing one of them.

Dumbledore also keeps Treelawney in his employ, and she seems to be a fraud.

Dumbledore never said that he trusted any of these people, but he still put 
the lives of his students in peril by hiring them; so I don't think that 
Dumbledore has the best  record when it comes to faculty.

-SpyGameFan


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