Still wondering why Snape trusts DD! (was: James the Berk?)

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 106492

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:

there has to be a REASON why 
> Snape, who was surely profoundly disappointed & angry that DD 
didn't 
> punish the Marauders after the prank, DID end up trusting DD enough 
> to return to his fold.

Snape returned just before LV's defeat, at the hands of baby Harry.  
The timing suggests that Snape knew what LV was about to do, and 
couldn't go along with it.  Perhaps Snape went over to LV in the 
first place at least in part because of the prank, but when LV 
announced that he planned to kill an innocent child, perhaps Snape's 
own past haunted him a bit, and he couldn't let that happen.  Perhap 
killing Harry was one step too far over the line.  The only way he 
had of stopping it (or at least trying) was to inform DD.  He "grew 
up" suddenly and discovered that he had gotten himself involved in 
something truly evil, and wanted out.  DD took him in, and offered 
him the same second chance he has given others (the Marauders in 
particular, but also Lupin just by the fact that he allowed him to 
attend Hogwarts).

I suspect DD trusts Snape because he knows Snape took a great chance 
in telling him LV's plans, and because Snape does have a conscience, 
even if he's not a nice person.  Snape trusts DD because he gave him 
that second chance.