Snape and Dumbledore [was Spy novel?]

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No: HPFGUIDX 118717


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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.  
> 


Others have wondered about the lack  of repercussions from the
Shrieking Shack incident too.

If the word had spread Lupin, Sirius and probably DD would have been
out on their collective ear. Blackmail only  raises it's ugly head if
Sevvy demands some reward or advantage for keeping quiet. But
it's difficult to imagine anything that he'd want more than seeing Sirius
and if possible his friends, suffer. He should have been shouting 
"Murderer!  Werewolf!" from the rooftops. He didn't and I don't
understand why. 

What could DD have done to Snape?
Thrown him out of Hogwarts perhaps. For what reason? Being a victim?
But I bet that'd be reversed once Snape's story hit the newspapers or
the Ministry. He'd be seen as the injured party, the almost victim of
a malicious, murderous deception by a scion of the very nasty
Black family. 

Lots of people  ask why DD trusts Snape; there was a thread a few
months ago where I turned that around. Why on earth should Snape
trust Dumbledore? Snape is firmly convinced that Sirius deliberately
tried to kill him, yet so far as we know there were no unpleasant
consequences for Sirius.

Would Snape feel as if justice had been served? Probably not. So
why would he trust DD enough to put his life in DD's hands?
We don't know.
Frustrating isn't it?

Kneasy