Snape and the DADA job

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85613

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, A Featheringstonehaugh
<featheringstonehaugh at y...> wrote:
> Perhaps Snape's desire for the DADA position and Dumbledore's
refusal of it may all be a charade; the intended implication being
that Dumbledore harbors some mistrust of Snape. 
>  
> AF
>

If that's the case, we have to consider Dumbledore untruthful since
he's said about once every book, "I trust Severus Snape." The most
obvious illustration of that trust is at the end of GoF, after Snape
has very courageously revealed the mark on his arm to Idiot!Fudge,
when Dumbledore sends Snape off on a clearly dangerous secret mission
(my guess is that he has to present Lucius Malfoy with a plausible
excuse for not attending the meeting of Death Eaters).

Has anyone listed the number of times Dumbledore has said directly and
openly, without Snape being present, that he trusts him? Surely (unles
we believe in ESE!Dumbledore, which I don't) there's no reason to
doubt his word.

Carol