Snape's Trustworthiness vrs Crouch!Moody'

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 103610

Sonja wrote: 
> Aside from the above topic, I'm am beginning to think Snape will 
end 
> up being a traitor to Dumbledore ---- only b/c we have been told 
so 
> many times (by Hermione and Dumbledore) that he is on Dumbledore's 
> side.  Harry and Ron have suspected Snape many times only to find 
> out they were wrong.  It seems JKR might be giving us a "false 
sense 
> of security." 
> 


Potioncat:
I think you have a good point.  DD appears to have trusted others 
who were not worthy of it, why not this time as well?  And sometimes 
I wonder if he knows that Snape is not on his side and is using the 
word trust with a great deal of irony.  That is not what I want to 
believe. (any more than I want to belive in ESE!Lupin, but that has 
merit as well)

So, trusting Snape as I do, I have this obsevation:
Professor Moody (Crouch!Moody) shows up at Hogwarts.  He's strange, 
he's intimidating and he gets on the good side of the students right 
away.  He even has them submitting to unforgivable curses.  He's 
cool!  After putting Neville through that horrible ordeal, he leaves 
him feeling confident and appreciated. Turns out he's a real 
manipulator!

Snape's strange.  He's intimidating.  I'm not sure if even the 
Slytherins are really comfortable around him. The very ones who 
agree to the Unforgivables don't trust Snape with poisons and 
antidotes.  He's so mean that Harry can't relax enough around him to 
learn Occlumency, even though Snape turns down the intensity quite a 
bit (you didn't notice?  Neither could Harry.)

The deranged killer is actually trying to protect Harry. (or at 
least get rid of Harry's enemy.)  The kind, caring teacher is a 
dangerous monster. The mean one looking to punish is really watching 
out for the students.

So the baddies can appear trustworthy at the drop of a hat.  Yet 
it's the scary one who should be trusted.  Unless of course it's 
Umbridge as the Slytherins found out. (Or did they know that all 
along?)

Hogwarts is a scary place!