Occlumency -THE REAL STORY

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>>Carol: 
>Dumbledore did not tell "the entire world" that Snape had been a 
spy. He told the Wizengamot in what was probably a closed hearing,< 

>>Eggplant:
>He told a lot more people that Snape was a spy than just the 
Wizengamot, he said it in a "enormous room" with "rows and rows of 
witches and wizards seated around every wall on what seemed like 
benches rising in levels". We also know "there were not nearly that
many teachers at Hogwarts."
>There must have been several hundred people there at least when 
Dumbledore spilled the beans about Snape, and that was not even the 
first time he'd done it, he said he testified about it before and who 
knows how many people were there then. The idea that all of them 
could have kept the secret for well over a decade is not credible.<

Betsy:
But the rows and rows of wizards and witches *are* the Wizengamot.  
They must be, because the WW does *not* know that Snape was a Death 
Eater.  (Parents would not stand for a former Death Eater teaching 
their children.  Rita Skeeter would have listed Snape as one of 
Dumbledore's mistakes.) 

Plus, how wise is it to tell the world that someone is a spy before 
the war was over?  As to the crediblity of that amount of people 
keeping a secret - well they are wizards you know.  There is probably 
a spell to make sure what is spoken of in closed session stays closed.

Betsy