Hermione and her time -turner and a Snape theory

[Linda]

No: HPFGUIDX 58384

 Beaky wrote:
  
> >  In PoA, Hermione is getting to all her classes using a time 
> turner.We know that she  must not be seen .<

 Pippin replied:

> I think what Dumbledore meant was,"You must not be seen 
> using the Time Turner for an unauthorized purpose." 
> 
> It was perfectly all right for Hermione to be seen by the other 
> students in the classes she was doubling up on, though she 
> wasn't supposed to tell them how she was doing it. McGonagall 
> knew she had a time-turner, and I think the rest of the staff 
> probably did too.<

 Me(Linda): 

    
   " "Well there you have it Severus," said Dumbledore calmly. 
Unless you are suggesting that Harry and Hermione are able to be in 
two places at once, I'm afraid I don't see any point in troubling 
them further"
     Snape stood there, seething, staring from Fudge, who looked 
thoroughly shocked at his behavior, to Dumbledore, whose eyes were 
twinkling behind his glasses. Snape whirled about, robes swishing 
behind him, and stormed out of the ward."
       pg 420 PoA US paperback

     IMO, if Snape had known about the time turner, he would have 
understood exactly how HH could have been in two places at once. So 
at this point we are left with two interpretations of the above 
canon.

      1. Snape knew about the time turner and when Dumbledore 
brought up being in two places at once, he realized that HH had used 
it to save Buckbeak and Sirius. Additionally, he caught the 
*twinkle* in Dumbledore's eyes and also realized that their actions 
had been sanctioned and maybe even suggested by the headmaster. His 
loyalty to Dumbledore took over and the result was for him to clam 
up and leave the room before his anger made him compromise 
Dumbledore in front of Fudge.

      2. Snape had no idea that Hermione had been using a time 
turner all year as his class was not one of the classes that 
Hermione had concurrantly. ( As a core class, schedueling wise it 
could not conflict with any of the elective classes.) And his 
reaction was one of pure frustration.

     When I started out to write this post I was going to say that I 
was of the opinion that choice two was the correct one. However, as 
I put my thoughts into words, I have convinced myself that #1 is 
most probably the case.  It makes the most sense. Dumbledore trusts 
Snape. We have heard him say so several times in canon. Therefore, 
Snape, especially since he is a former DE (with Dumbledore's full 
knowlege of that fact), must have  an extrordinarily strong sense of 
loyalty to both Dumbledore and the *light side*. If Snape's sense of 
loyalty is as strong as I think it is, he would not have betrayed 
Dumbledore's actions in front of Fudge, (but I'm sure they had quite 
a conversation in Dumbledore's office after Fudge left).


      On a totally different subject...
 
      A new thought just occured to me. What if Snape's original 
loyalty to was to Dumbledore and loyalty to the cause of good is a 
result of Dumbledore's persuasion and influence in his life? Could 
Snape's loyalty be because of something Dumbledore did for him as 
opposed to something horrible that LV or the DEs did?

     
    -Linda, would an ISP for wizards be called WOL?