Depth? Things to take on their face value (Was: Sirius' loyalty)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 139862

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> 
wrote:

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> Unless Snape is not completely on Voldemort's side, and plans to 
> use his superb Occlumency skills, he will be delivering every plan 
> Dumbledore devised to Voldemort. 

Assuming that Snape *knows* every plan Dumbledore devised.  I submit 
to you that we can't assume that, given the canonicity of things 
going on that we saw that Dumbledore probably didn't tell Snape 
about.  (Unless, of course, he's lying to Harry about how many people 
know all of the prophecy, or the horsepuckies.)

The more I think about it, given interview comments and some 
introspection, the more I think that Snape knows *less* than we've 
always thought he did.  The whole model of Snape and Dumbledore 
working tightly in concert has always seemed a little gooey to me 
(especially given the meltdown at the end of PoA), in part because of 
the depth of outright direction it takes from Dumbledore.

For instance, I don't think that Snape being nasty in class is some 
part of a grand master plan to demonstrate his 'actual' allegiances 
to the other DEs.  Lucius Malfoy makes comments out not appearing to 
dislike Harry Potter, so good behavior could be explained as well.  I 
think it's simplest there to assume that Dumbledore, in line with his 
general inclinations, let Snape be Snape.  Now, what that means--
misdirected anger and guilt or mean-spirited malice--that's rather 
open, methinks.

That's irrelevant to my main objection here, though. :)

-Nora gets ready to go *not* be a Snape-like teacher for her rugrats