"Snape's Job"

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No: HPFGUIDX 93701

Gadfly McLellyn:
> If Dumbledore trusts Snape then why at the end of GOF when 
Dumbledore 
> says to Snape "you know what I must ask you to do" segment he 
looks 
> at him with "a trace of apprehension on his face, as Snape swept 
> wordlessly after Sirius" p713 US paperback Parting of the Ways 
> chapter?  He may be telling the pupils he trusts Snape because he 
> doesn't want to undermine his teachers authority.  But that 
passage 
> does open some doubt that Dumbledore does trust Snape.  Dumbledore 
> can be fooled....think of QuirrelMort, Evil!Moody


I took DD's apprehension here as apprehension over where Snape must 
go/what Snape must do. That is, that he was *worried* about what 
Snape was going off to face, not that he was worried about whether 
Snape could be trusted.

Siriusly Snapey Susan