Rampant Ingratitude, was Re:Lusting After Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 129374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> Pippin:
> Dumbledore says he is and that he, Dumbledore, made a mistake to
> forget it. And since Dumbledore has all the facts and we don't, I'm
> inclined to trust him on this. Dumbledore is not usually wrong about
> people, provided they're not concealing ill will. Snape's malice  is
> right  out in the open, not concealed at all. It may be illmannered, 
> but it's also a poor foundation for treachery.

Whiz: Dumbledore has a reputation for not being exactly forthcoming. 
I'm sure that what he said is true, but I doubt it's the whole story.
 
> Pippin:
> 
> He may be crawling on broken glass; it would account for his 
> disposition. 
> 
> Since we don't know what Snape did for Voldemort, and have only the
> vaguest idea what  he's done for the Order, besides botching
> the Occlumency (and I'd have to say that Harry is at least as
> responsible for that as Snape is) and saving Harry's life (twice now) 
> it seems a bit, well, lopsided  to say  that he hasn't done as well
> for the Order as he did for Voldy. 
> 
> Of course Harry's just a kid and shouldn't be expected to share
> responsibility --except that if he were just a kid, he wouldn't have
> been tasked to learn occlumency in the first place. 
> 
> The young man who's acting like a petulant child in OOP has his name 
> and picture on the cover, IMO.
> 
> 
> Pippin

What if Harry is being affected by either a potion and/or the
confundus charm?  

I don't believe that Snape is loyal to either Voldemort or Dumbledore.
 I think he is one of the disenchanted purebloods who, while opposed
to Dumbledore on all other issues, are willing to work with him
against their common enemy in Voldemort.  But I also think that if
Snape could figure out how to kill Voldemort himself, he'd have Harry
killed and the purebloods would attempt to take over the MoM.