Dumbledore's trust for Severus Snape.

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 138533

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "colebiancardi" <muellem at b...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> ahh. Let me clarify - when Snape was a student at Hogwarts, yes,
> there was probably no reason for DD not to trust him. However, Snape
> became a Death Eater - He wasn't born one, he became one(sometime
> shortly after he left Hogwarts, I am guessing). He told Voldemort 
the
> prophecy - what he heard, of course. So, when Snape went back to
> Dumbledore, there were several reasons why Dumbledore should not 
trust
> Snape. The fact that Snape would now what to *betray* Voldemort by
> turning spy for DD, should & probably did raise DD's eyebrows.
> 
> DD knows about Snape's mastery at Occlumens, so without a water-
tight
> reason, why would Dumbledore trust Snape when he turned? And over 
the
> course of 16 years or so, Snape has proven his loyality to DD, but
> back in 1980-1981, that history wasn't there. So it has to be
> something else.

Finwitch:

Yes. Snape *confessed* and asked for his help. That was, IMO, enough 
for Dumbledore... particularly if Snape told him particularly nasty 
tale about something the DEs had done... and I don't think that 
Dumbledore trusting Snape was foolishness - more of doing the right 
thing despite of the risk. I'd say that this trusting of Dumbledore's 
is way to fight Voldemort causing loads of distrust... and I just 
admire him for it, whether or not he was correct about Snape.

Oh, and mind you, Snape wasn't pretending to be someone else; and of 
course, he never did do anything to cause Dumbledore distrust him (or 
if he did, Dumbledore never found out - or Snape had an excuse 
ready... Dumbledore didn't find out about three illegal animagi at 
Hogwarts, did he?) - and why would he have, all those years Voldemort 
was less than a ghost? After Voldemort came back... well, you know 
what he told Bella? Being Dumbledore's trusted man made him *useful* 
to Voldemort AND was according to Voldemort's orders anyway.

I just wonder... if Snape was loyal to Dumbledore, how did he manage 
to fool Voldemort?

Finwitch