Omniscient Dumbledore /Snape's guilt/

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

houyhnhnm:

I don't either, come to think of it. Dumbledore plays it pretty close
to the vest.  Far from being too trusting, it could be argued that he
doesn't trust people enough, Harry for instance.   

There is an awful lot we don't know about the relationship between
Dumbledore and Snape.  Not only do we not know the real reason
Dumbledore trusts Snape ('cause I just can't buy the idea that the
greatest wizard in the world trusts people because he wants to believe
the best of them), but we know next to nothing about their
relationship when Snape was a student.  We know that Snape made a
promise not to reveal Lupin's secret (and apparently kept it).  We
don't know if Dumbledore was concerned about Snape's tendencies toward
the dark side and made any attempt to intervene.  I imagine there will
be a lot more about that in book 7.