[HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore and Trust

[elvinprincess99 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 73476

In a message dated 07/25/2003 6:16:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bibphile at yahoo.com writes:
SNIP
> >>I think something made Dumbledore believe Snape when Snape came to 
> him and offered to turn spy.  He took the risk.  Everything Snape 
> said turned out to be true.  This continued (at great risk to Snape, 
> btw); the information was always accurate.  It was the same through 
> the remaineder of the war.  It was (more than) long enough for Snape 
> to earn his trust.<<

     Normally I don't respond or voice my ideas on posts of this nature in 
case I repeat an old thread or get angry responses to what I wrote (I'm more of 
SHIP and romantic poster) However when I read this post I just HAD to tell my 
theory on how Snape won Dumbledore's trust. Here goes:
     Snape first comes to Dumbledore , not asking to be a spy but telling 
Dumbledore that Voldemort is/was after Lily and James. If I remember correctly, 
in book 3 Fudge? tells Madame Rosmerta that Lily and James knew Voldemort was 
after them because a spy tipped off Dumbledore about. How much to bet , that 
that spy was Snape. That's probably why Dumbledore accepted Snape to his side 
and trusted him (Snape probably did other stuff to earn DD's trust also but this 
was the main) because Snape risked his life to save the person he most hated. 

     It sounds like something Snape would do because, as we all remember, in 
Book 1 , Snape felt forcefully in debt to James (because James saved his life 
in the whole 6th year feed Snape to the werewolf fiasco). SO telling 
Dumbledore that Lily and James were in mortal danger was probably his first attempt to 
rid himself of the life debt, but since they died anyway the debt remained 
unpaid. He was also probably sick of Voldemorts nasty ways
                     If this has already been posted please tell me nicely 
and if there are gaping holes in this theory, please do the same 
                                                            tootles,
                                                                    Elvin
 






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