Who Trusts Snape?! (OofP spoilers)

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 71244

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> 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.


Although we are also told that our guy Snape has regularly been 
applying for the job...


> > 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.

Of course, if you're bunged up in Azkaban post-haste, who are you 
going to tell?  And, as far as we know, Dumbledore, who worked with 
Sirius in the first version of the Order, made no effort to try to 
get his side of the story, either.

Marianne