[HPforGrownups] Snape and Dumbledores trust

[Kathryn Wolber]

No: HPFGUIDX 54721


 
 Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia at obscure.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, beanneboy wrote:

Dumbledore must trust Snape enormously to have made him the head of
Slytherin house.  As Head of House, he is in a position to closely mentor
Slytherin students if he chooses, and to do so out of sight of other
students and teachers.  I'd say the Head of House position requires a
higher level of personal trust than any of the teaching positions.  Since
Dumbledore chose to give Snape the Head of House position, I have a hard
time believing there is any lack of trust there.

This just occured to me...what if he gave Snape the Head of Slytherin House position to keep an eye on the DE children.  He may be one of the only people on the good side that knows who the DE are.  So he knows that Draco, Crabbe and Goyle all come from DE families and maybe he's "mentoring" of them is an attempt to monitor their behavior.  

This also makes part of me wonder if this may have something to do with all his behavior.  If he was nice to Harry, Lucius Malfoy would find out from Draco and when Lucius was still a School governor, he could have gotten Snape fired.  Snape may be imitating Draco's behavior to stay in Lucius's good graces because who knows what Lucius would do if Snape was mean to Draco...get Snape put in St. Mungos? Tell Rita Skeeter that Snape was a DE?  I know Snape can be sorta mean, but I don't think he's so incompassionate to want to be mean to a mere child...especially a child who was orphaned because of his former leader who he is supposedly fighting against.  It just doesn't add up for me.....

~Kathryn, who had now thoroughly confused herself



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