Snape: What is he up to?

[bugaloo37]

No: HPFGUIDX 44062

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "erisedstraeh2002" <erisedstraeh2002 at y...> 
wrote:
> I'm not convinced of Dumbledore's perceptivity.  He's been a poor 
> judge of character before (e.g., Quirrell, Lockhart).
> 
> ~Phyllis

Please do not get me wrong- I am not saying that Dumbledore is 
omniscient-obviously not, or he would have known about the Marauders 
animagi and Barty/Moody.  I am simply saying that when Dumbledore 
makes such a forthright statement concerning a particular person, we 
can put a certain amount of faith in it.  As far as I know Dumbledore 
never actually verbalized any such support for either Quirrell or 
Lockhart ( if you can find it in canon-please let me know. I will 
acknowledge the possibility I overlooked it).  As has been discussed 
before many times, finding a DADA teacher is apparently a hard task - 
also I was under the impression that whereas Dumbledore does indeed 
have a say in who will take certain teaching positions-his is not 
always the final say.  Apparently in PoA, he had to do a lot of 
persuading in order to get Lupin hired.  His lack in recognizing 
Barty Crouch does bother me somewhat- I will admit.  And IMO, it may 
signal a certain amount of decrease in perceptive ability-this of 
course, is frightening.  However, I do not believe that Dumbledore is 
down for the count yet.  It has also been stated that Dumbledore is 
the only wizard that Voldemort truly fears-for whatever reason that 
may be, but at least on some level, this fear is based on 
Dumbledore's perceived abilities.

bugaloo37-who is still willing to give Dumbledore the benefit of the 
doubt.