Omniscient Dumbledore /Snape's guilt/

[KathyK]

No: HPFGUIDX 135719

houyhnhnm:

> In chapter 2 of HBP we are shown what Snape has been telling 
Voldemort and the DEs.  We are never shown explicitly what 
information Snape has
> passed to the Order, but I think there is indirect evidence, in
> chapter twenty-three of HBP, that Snape and Dumbledore have a
> confidential relationship and that Snape has passed on a great 
deal of critical information.
<snipping of the quotes from the book>

KathyK:

But does the critical information flow both ways?  I don't think so.

Snape's passing information to Dumbledore is no evidence there was a 
mutual exchange of confidences.  Snape's role was to spy on LV and 
keep Dumbledore up to date on what he and his merry band were up 
to.  He told Dumbledore what he knew.  Part of that may have been 
Voldemort's fit over the Diary's destruction, and the oddly close 
relationship LV shares with his Nagini.  

However, Snape's spying for the order does not mean Dumbledore was 
under any obligation to divulge his thoughts and plans to Snape, 
including the possible significance of those two pieces of 
intelligence.  And there's no evidence I can see that Dumbledore has 
taken Snape into his confidence, particularly as JKR has said that 
Dumbledore had no confidant.  

Dumbledore, I believe, may have revealed bits and pieces to Snape 
and others in the Order as he saw necessary, but has kept his 
overall strategy and certain evidence about LV (horcruxes) to 
himself, sharing the prophecy, Tom's history, and the horcruxes with 
Harry only.  

KathyK