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

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No: HPFGUIDX 106564

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dolies <doliesl at y...> wrote:
>snip>
> Snape's current
> trust do not "weight" in a balance in relation to how DD treat
> marauders in the past (Why does everything has be Marauders' related?) 
> His trusting of DD could be purely base on DD's willingness to believe
> *his STORY". It is the fact DD believes HIM that's why Snape trust DD
> in return, regardless of how DD handled student affairs in the past,
> because this is the only man that give his trust to Snape, and Snape
> honor that. Hope that clear your confusion.
> 
> D.

All very well, but what would happen if Snape found out that DD had
let him down *again*?

Is Snape aware that DD was instrumental in Sirius escaping at the end
of PoA? I don't think he is. DD gave him a clue, of course - "Unless
you are suggesting Harry and Hermione are able to be in two places
at once." So Snape probably knows about the Timeturner, but I doubt
he realised it was used at DD's suggestion.

IMO DD is skating on very thin ice with Snape.
Just before the duo go back, Snape  makes a very pointed remark -
"Sirius Black showed he was capable of murder at the age of sixteen,"
he breathed. "You haven't forgotten that, Headmaster? You haven't 
forgotten that he once tried to kill me?"

DD hasn't forgotten it; he discounts it. He puts  Snape lower in his
priorities than a (three times) would be murderer - The Shrieking
Shack I (Snape), the confrontation after Godric's Hollow (Peter), 
Shrieking Shack II (Peter again).
Not clever. What happens when Snape finds out?
A  split in the ranks?

Kneasy