Who Trusts Snape?! (OofP spoilers)

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 71593

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

That is Fudge's story, not Sirius'. And we know how Fudge likes to 
keep up appearances.  Doesn't it make a better story to tell people 
about how he was one of the first on the scene (which he does say) to 
confront a howling, cackling, maniacal Death Eater?  Certainly sounds 
more impressive that saying, we found this distraught young man 
clutching his wand and talking about how a rat killed the Potters. I 
find it perfectly believable that Sirius did try to tell people his 
side of the story.  And I also find it believable, given the tenor of 
the times, that no one in authority listened to him.

Marianne