Dumbledore's Motives?

[dantefyre2112]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Liz Muir <rowen_lm at y...> wrote:
> *****Dumbledore's Motives?*****

> >>Snape at the very least knew. He was suspicious of Quirrell from 
the
> start, even since the first Quidditch match. Surely he would have
> mentioned Quirrell's alarming behavior to Dumbledore, whom Snape
> respects. I mean, he tried to kill a student! Why didn't Dumbledore 
do
> anything about it?<<
> 
> I doubt Snape told Dumbledore about Quirrell, though it is possible.
> Otherwise, why would he have to sneak away on his own to stop 
Quirrell
> when the troll came in? Wouldn't Dumbledore have realized? Snape 
could
> have gotten help keeping Quirrell from the stone. No, Snape seems
> pretty loner-ish. I think he would try to handle this on his own.

No, this doesn't seem right to me.  Snape is on his second chance 
with Dumbledore.  He was spying against Voldemort for him in the last 
war.  When Harry overhears Snape talking to Quirrell, Snape says 
something to the effect of "We'll have another little chat soon, when 
you've had time to think things over and decided where you loyalties 
lie."  If he's questioning Quirrell's loylaties, then he must know 
he's in league with Voldemort and probably knows why he wants to 
stone.  As much of a loner that Snape is, it seems unbelieveable to 
me that he wouldn't go to Dumbledore.  The stone is at Hogwarts.  The 
idea is to keep it safe.  If Quirrell 'helped' safe guard the stone, 
then it was very much at risk.  No, I think Dumbledore had to know.  
He's supposed to be this all-seeing kind of guy, esp. where Hogwarts 
is concerned.  How could a trio of nosy first years figure something 
out that he wasn't aware of?  Seems unlikely. 


> How could he have known about Quirrell's "second face"? Quirrell 
wore
> the turban for a reason and Voldemort didn't exactally go around 
being
> obvious.

He takes that little interest in the welfare of his faculty?  Even 
Snape picked up on something off about the man.  Who knows how long 
Quirrell had been working at Hogwarts - we don't know if the high 
turnover rate of DADA teachers occurred before Harry's time.  Even if 
Dumbledore didn't know Voldie was actually on Quirrell's head, he 
should have suspected something, don't you think?

Dante