[HPforGrownups] Re: Who Trusts Snape?! (OofP spoilers)

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 71201

tigerpatronus wrote:
> 
> He didn't notice that Crouch!Moody was an imposter for nine months, 
> and then it was one dumb act (absconding with Harry), not an 
> accumulation of evidence about his personality or wrong reactions. If 
> the pod people impersonated some old friend I'd fought a war with, I 
> think I'd know. I hope I would. 

No one else did, either.  And what about the impostor's actions 
should have given him away?

> DD also hired Quirrel, a guy with a bad sense of who to hang around 
> with, who was already in thrall to LV. 

Quirrell came to Hogwarts before he met Voldemort.

> And DD hired Lockehart, that poseur. 

We are told that there were no other applicants for the job.

> And DD made Tom Riddle the Head Boy,  

Dippet did that, not Dumbledore.

> And DD thought SB was indeed the mass murderer. 

So did everyone else.  And as far as I know, Sirius never denied 
that he was the murderer (before his escape, that is); at least 
it's never mentioned that he did.

> DD didn't suss out the truth about Wormtail, who lived in his school 
> for almost three years as a rat, either. 

Was he even aware of Scabbers's existence?  Does Dumbledore know 
every pet in the school?

> And DD left HP with the Dursleys, and while there may have 
> been "blood magic" protecting his life, anyone who takes in a 
> child "furiously, bitterly," isn't going to love or nurture that 
> child. If love is Harry's greatest weapon, DD nearly stripped him of 
> it by allowing his formative years to be spent with the Dursleys. 

The choice was not between the Dursleys and some ideal home, but 
between the Dursleys and probable death.

> If 
> this weren't fiction, Harry would be seriously disturbed and have an 
> attachment disorder. He would be a sociopath. 

Surely not every child with an unhappy home becomes a sociopath.