[HPforGrownups] Re: Did Snape betray his friends? Round 2

[Marjorie Dawson]

No: HPFGUIDX 34770

As a newly joined member of the list I know I have come in to what is an very extended and very very long running conversation.

Cindysphynx says - It is correct that Dumbledore trusts Snape, but I don't think it is the same sort of trust that Dumbledore has in Hagrid.

Trust only comes in one form "complete" or not at all.  There is a degree of affection going back many years with Hagrid.  This is, in Snape's case, replaced with Dumbledore's respect at Snape's skills as Potions Professor and, possibly, as yet unkown "deeds" (also under discussion at length on this list....) and which will probably play some part in the next book; bearing in mind the nature of his departure at the end of GoF.

Felicia Rickman


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