The Two Fights

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 138137

Potioncat from post #138125:
> It's my theory that the argument in the forest was, at least in
> part, about DD's going after horcruxes. 

So Hagrid inteprets the DD/Snape fight to be over the necklace and the 
very recent accidental poisoning of Ron. But two months before this, 
Harry told Dumbledore *everything* about the fight between 
Draco/Snape, implicating Draco in the necklace scheme and alerting 
Dumbledore to the Unbreakable Vow (if he did not already know about 
these things).

Yet when Dumbledore is arguing with Snape, Hagrid said he 
mentioned 'makin' investigations in his House, in Slytherin.'  
Dumbledore already knows who the culprit is. So does that mean 
Dumbledore isn't telling Snape he knows all about Draco & the 
Unbreakable? Hoping Snape will spill the beans himself?

As for the first part of the fight, it could be a separate issue. 
Snape 'didn' want ter do it anymore--.' Didn' want ter keep healing DD 
while he's on the Horcrux hunt, as Potioncat suggested? Didn' want ter 
continue in the cursed DADA position? Wants out of the spying game? 

If it was all about the same issue, Snape getting to the bottom of the 
necklace and poisoning issue, then there was a bigger split between 
Dumbledore and Snape than I picked up on reading HBP. Maybe Dumbledore 
was referring to more than just Trelawney the night he told 
Harry: "But never mind my staffing problems." (chap. 20, p. 427, US).

Jen