Snape and the Death Eaters?

[Devika]

No: HPFGUIDX 55340

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Laura" <metslvr19 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I might mention that, as far as we can tell, Snape might well be a 
> spy for either side.  Or he could be spying for both sides and not 
> give a you-know-what who "wins."  I, for one, still don't 
completely 
> trust Snape.  Yes, we know that Dumbledore absolutely positively 
> trusts him.
> 
> And that's exactly why I don't.  Think about it- Dumbledore is 
> *always* right.  He knows what's happened, what is happening, and 
he 
> sometimes seems to know what will happen.  He say through TMR 
during 
> the COS issue 50 years ago, he knew when Harry had gone to the 
> Weasley's house, he knew he had to keep the executioner in Hagrid's 
> hut longer to allow Harry and Hermione more time to free Buckbeak.  
> The guys knows EVERYTHING.
> 
> So he has to be wrong sometime.  It's sort of a mini-theory of 
> mine...more of a suspicion, really.  It's sort of bangy.  Wrong!
> Dumbledore.      
> 
> And I'm not totally convinced that this isn't the time that he's 
> wrong.  Do I have canon to back this up?
> 
> Nope. =)
> 

Dumbledore hasn't always been right.  He wasn't right when he thought 
for twelve years that Sirius had been the Potters' Secret Keeper and 
had killed Peter Pettigrew.  He wasn't right about Crouch!Moody for 
almost an entire year.  It's true that he knows a whole lot, and what 
he doesn't know initially he does find out in the end.  However, he's 
not *always* right about *everything*.  

I think that Dumbledore is right in trusting Snape, though.  There 
seems to be some compelling and convincing reason for this, although 
we don't know what it is.  In fact, the reason is so interesting that 
even Harry asked Dumbledore what it was.  And this is *Harry,* who 
asks so few questions that many readers (myself included) are 
incredibly frustrated at his apparent lack of interest in so many 
interesting things (about his parents, for instance).   A lot of the 
questions on our list of 50+ questions that we want answered are 
things that Harry could find out easily by asking someone like 
Sirius.  But I digress.  My point is that, although we don't know for 
sure, it seems as though Dumbledore has a very good reason for 
trusting Snape.  And, considering Dumbledore's track record, I find 
it hard to believe that he can be wrong when he actually has some 
kind of hard evidence.  

Of course, like I said, there's no canon evidence to back this up 
either way.  However, JKR did say somewhere that Harry would ask more 
questions in OoP.  So the question remaining for us is this:  can we 
wait 68 more days??  

Devika :)