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

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 71537

kiricat2001 wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
> wrote:
> 
>>tigerpatronus wrote:
>>
>>>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...

Which indicates that Dumbledore thinks that Snape would be worse 
than Lockhart.

>>>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.

He had the opportunity when he was caught; instead he just 
laughed maniacally.