Will Snape betray Dumbledore? Re: my greatest fear....

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 121360


> 
> Snow:
> Snape is a confusing character, for every good reason to believe 
in  Snape you can find an alternate reason to suspect him. 
snip
A good percentage of  the people DD has trusted have turned out to 
be someone they are not and the majority of them were appointed 
teachers. I'm with Ron
and I  don't give DD a very good grade in
his 
successfulness at using his  legilemency powers
unless... 
Examining 
the situation with this bit of information, how can you possibly 
assess Snape logically or trustingly based on DD's faith? 

Potioncat:
Well stated. Sorry I had to snip so much.
I also keep thinking of Snape insisting to C!M that DD trusts him.  
It seemed to be a true statement, but one that didn't go far 
enough.  "DD trusts me." was true, but was it true that Snape was 
worthy of the trust?


snipping 

>>Snow> 
(1)The night the Death-eaters were playing a bit of muggle 
> torture, I found it quite interesting that one of the masked 
marching 
> death-eaters that night had specifically tortured the muggle Mrs. 
> Roberts by turning her upside down revealing her panties (just 
like 
> someone else we know that wears gray undies. This was after all a 
> part of Snape's worst nightmare). Could Snape have been the death-
> eater that night that performed this curse on Mrs. Roberts?

Potioncat:
I've seen this suggested before, but as upsetting as Harry's view of 
that episode was to Snape, I can't think he'd do that to others.  If 
only because it would remind him of the humiliation.  Now, he might 
not mind flipping any of the Marauders upside down as revenge.

But could it be that someone else from that episode was in the 
group?  Someone behind a mask...Lupin? Black?

Snow: 
> (2)	The chapter in POA entitled The Servant of Lord Voldemort, 
> how ironic that this chapter opens with Snape revealing his 
presence  to the marauders and the trio. 
snip 
...but I just can't resist  speculating on the fact that JKR can be 
so obviously unobvious with  her clues that you tend to disregard 
intuition that the clue may be  straightforward this time. 

Potioncat:
Odd you should mention this.  It jumped out at me with this reading 
of PoA but I'd never noticed it before. Keep in mind too, that at 
this point, IIRC, we've never been given any reason to think Snape 
had ever been a DE. We thought he was the bad guy in most of SS/PS, 
but I don't think we had a real connection to LV. So, as you've 
said, another reason to distrust him.

Wait, this isn't the way this is supposed to go...