Dumbledore's trust for Severus Snape.

[Laura Herndon]

No: HPFGUIDX 138092

colebiancardi wrote:   
> Dumbledore is trusting, but he isn't a fool.  He didn't trust 
> Riddle, he didn't give Riddle a chance when Riddle came to 
> apply for the DADA job.  There is something more going on 
> with why DD trusts Snape so much, and I am not just speaking
> of the 15 years that Snape has been loyal to DD.  


Thank you for pointing this out. I have read so much made of 
how blindly trusting Dumbledore is, but all his reactions to 
Tom Riddle indicate otherwise. If Dumbledore was so stubbornly 
determined to see good that isn't really there he would been 
easier on the young man.  Instead, he treats Tom Riddle with 
caution from the beginning.  Knowing that Snape has been an 
active Death Eater, there must have been more to Dumbledore's 
acceptance than a simple "I've seen the error of my ways". 
 
Laura