Dumbledore's trust for Severus Snape

[eileennicholson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 138114

Hickengruendler:
>I still believe Dumbledore knows more about Snape than we  do, and that's 
why he 
>trusts him.

Eileen:
Now that JKR has told us  how it works, I speculate that Dumbledore could 
rely on  Sevvie's trustworthiness if every time he came back from an assignation 
with  Voldy or the DEs he dropped the full set of memories in Dumbledore's  
Pensieve. 
This could have started originally with his memory  of repeating the prophecy 
to Voldie, and of events at GH (if he was present or  when he first heard 
about them), so that Dumbledore would know about his remorse  almost at first 
hand, and could then speak of it confidently to  Harry. 
If Sevvie has done this over the years, it could  have become almost 
automatic, and it would then be hard for him to keep to  himself the full text of the 
Unbreakable Vow. And Dumbledore would then be able  to judge for himself, just 
as we have done, whether Sevvie knew what Draco's  task was before he 
promised to become a potential deputy for him.
 
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, July 2005
MA: One of our Leaky “Ask Jo” poll  winners is theotherhermit, she's 50 and 
lives in a small town in the eastern US.  I think this was addressed in the 
sixth book, but, “Do the memories stored in a  Pensieve reflect reality or the 
views of the person they belong to?”
JKR: It’s reality. It’s important that I have got that across, because  
Slughorn gave Dumbledore this pathetic cut-and-paste memory. He didn't want to  
give the real thing, and he very obviously patched it up and cobbled it  
together. So, what you remember is accurate in the Pensieve. 
ES: I was dead wrong about that. 
JKR: Really? 
ES: I thought for sure that it was your interpretation of it. It didn’t  make 
sense to me to be able to examine your own thoughts from a third-person  
perspective. It almost feels like you'd be cheating because you'd always be able  
to look at things from someone else's point of view. 
MA: So there are things in there that you haven't noticed personally, but  
you can go and see yourself? 
JKR: Yes, and that's the magic of the Pensieve, that's what brings it  alive.


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