Snape and Dumbledore [was Spy novel?]

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 118702

--- Hannah <hannahmarder at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> This theory would back up a lot of what Carol said in her post; 
> Snape's first chance, him *re*joining the good side, the likelihood
> that DD had strong influence over him at school, how he managed to 
> get away with going back to LV after being revealed as a spy, and 
> why DD was able to decide to trust him.  


Without coming down on one side or the other of your theory/plot
(although personally I can buy it and think it's quite likely what
actually happened), there is an additional piece of evidence for
Dumbledore having some influence on teen!Snape. 

In the Shrieking Shack in POA, Lupin relates the story of the Prank
and then says that Snape "was forbidden to tell anyone by
Dumbledore".  

This puzzles me.  Had parents found out that Dumbledore had let a
werewolf into the school as a student he very likely would have lost
his position and Lupin would have been expelled at a minimum.  So
what possible leverage did Dumbledore have over Snape that would have
prevented him from telling anyone?  If anything Snape was the one who
was in the driver's seat and in a position to exact some kind of
payment for his conditional silence.

"Severus, I forbid you to blackmail me" is pretty much what it
amounts to.  

Magda



		
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