Omniscient Dumbledore (Was Re: Snape's AK Failed!!!, and DADA responses)

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Sherry now:

Do we really know that Dumbledore has  confided so much to Snape?  What do we
actually know that he's confided  about the order, or Harry, or horcruxes or
anything.  Just because  Dumbledore trusts Snape's reasons for returning,
trusts him individually,  doesn't mean he trusts him with tons of
information.  Dumbledore even  makes Harry promise not to tell anyone but Ron
and Hermione about the  horcruxes.  Dumbledore seems to be the kind of
general who works on the  need to know basis.  i grant you that by reading
mostly the audio books,  I probably miss some details, but is there actually
canon to show that  Dumbledore trusts Snape with a lot of information?  After
all, if Snape  is indeed Dumbledore's spy, the less info he has about DD's
plans and  theories, the safer the good side is.  You wouldn't want your spy
to  have a lot of information that could be tortured out of him, if he  gets
caught.  

sherry





Julie responds:
You, Nora and Lupinlore make a good point. We don't really know how
much DD has told Snape. Of course, he has to tell Snape some 
things, and Snape is an accomplished Occlumens or he'd be long
dead. But DD does seem to share information on a need to  know 
basis, which explains why no one else knows his "ironclad" reason 
for trusting Snape. 
 
I do think though, that we see more instances where DD sharing
information/plotting with Snape than with anyone else in the 
books. "You know what you must do."--CoS, implies that they
have discussed Snape's activities. The Occlumency, and the 
fact that Snape delivered DD's orders to Grimmauld Place. The
overheard conversation in HBP. None of these mean DD is
confiding everything, or even most things, in Snape. But he is
sharing enough information with Snape that it implies a great
amount of trust between them, leaving DD looking pretty bad
if that trust has been misplaced.
 
Regarding DD telling Harry only to share information on the
Horcruxes with Ron and Hermoine, he certainly wouldn't have
to mention Snape here, should Snape know about them. It's
not like Harry is even in the same room as Snape if he can 
help it!

But speaking of the horcruxes, when DD nearly died from
the ring horcrux, he mentions that only Snape's quick action
saved him. Could Snape have saved DD if he didn't know 
exactly what kind of curse/spell he was counteracting? It
seems kind of unlikely, which is a clue that Snape does
know about the horcruxes...
 
Julie 
 
 
 
 


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