[HPforGrownups] Re: Moody/Snape

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 56744

From: "Anne(Anja)"

> Maybe he also feared that Moody might be able to destroy Dumbledore's
> trust in him. For Snape , Dumbledore's trust , maybe also his
> friendship , seem to be the most important things in life. At least
> that was what came to my mind after reading what was said after Snape
> mentions Moody searching his office :
>
> Moodys face twisted into a smile. "Auror's privilege, Snape.
> Dumbledore told me
> to keep an eye -"
> "Dumbledore happens to trust me," said Snape through clenched
> teeth. "I refuse to
> believe that he gave you orders to search my office!"
>
> (GoF , p. 305)
>
> This makes me believe that Snape is very anxious someone might
> actually be able to make the Headmaster mistrust him (like probably
> most people in the Wizarding World would do if they knew about his
> past).

First of all, I have always found that quote of Snape's to be fascinating.
It shows that he believes DD trusts him, and he has such faith in this that
he refuses to believe that DD doesn't trust him.  I don't see any anxiety
from Snape that DD might be led not to trust him, simply because that
probably would have happened during or in the aftermath of the last war.
Don't try to tell me Moody and others in the know tried to make DD see their
point of view, mainly that Snape had been a traitor to one side, so what's
to stop him from doing it again?  We still don't know what made Snape defect
or what he did or said to DD that made him trust that Snape was for real,
but whatever it was must have been pretty strong and I don't think even
Snape thinks that DD's going to all of a sudden change his mind 13 years
later just because the Mark Snape had received way before that is now coming
back of its own accord.

> Even if his trial took place in public (and I believe it did) it
> doesn't seem to be public knowledge in the WW that he once was a DE.
> Otherwise , people would probably be worried about an ex-DE being
> their children's teacher (like they were worried about a werewolf
> teaching their children) .

Also my main reason for believing his trial was not public and only certain
people knew about it.  More found out about it at Karkaroff's trial, but
even that one must not have been that public.  After all, Karkaroff was
going to name names, and I don't think the enforcement agency would want the
WW in general to know who had been named, or else it would be impossible to
catch those people.  Therefore, this little piece of info must not be
well-known or else DD, Snape, the MoM, and who knows who else would be
getting owls to this effect.

> And when you think about it , someone as paranoid as Moody would have
> been clearly capable of bringing Snape's past to public and therefore
> destroy his reputation. Although I don't think Dumbledore would have
> made him leave , I doubt that he would have been able to go on
> teaching like nothing had happened.
>
Moody is also a friend of DD's and one of the few Aurors who did not give in
to corruption during the last war.  Why would he out Snape just for the fun
of it?  I could see him doing it if he had found a genuine reason to think
Snape was up to no good and/or truly a DE still.  I can see Snape being
worried/afraid that Moody might see something in or about Snape that he
doesn't like and that would make him think he was up to no good and out him
because Moody erroneously believes that Snape is a danger.  Perhaps why he
does back down so easily when Moody mentions the name Harry.  Or, if he
really is playing some sort of a role where he may have to renew his DE ties
down the line, he could also be afraid that Moody will blow the whole thing
somehow.  If this is the case, this fear would be viable because, by Moody
making the comments about DD that he does, it tells Snape that DD didn't let
Moody in on their little plan.

 Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova/