OFH SNAPE was: Script from JKR's reading/ About Snape and Dumbledore

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 156916


Snow wrote:
> <big snip>

> Dumbledore surely trusts Snape to the degree that he has stated but 
> why does he trust Snape completely is the answer I was approaching. 
> Dumbledore trusts Snape completely because he realizes that no matter 
> what; Snape has to save Harry to save himself. Snape is tied into the 
> cause, not because he wants to be but because he has to be to protect 
> his own best interest. 

<snip>

I will however submit for your scrutiny a quote from Dumbledore
during this same scene that tells me that Dumbledore still questions
Snape:

POA pg 390 "I suppose he's told you the same fairy tale he's planted
in Potter's mind?" spat (look at this spat) Snape. "Something about a
rat, and Pettigrew being alive-"

"That, indeed, is Black's story," said Dumbledore, surveying Snape
closely through his half-moon spectacles.

Oh yeah, Dumbledore is doing his Legilimence on Snape. This is the
person that he supposedly trusts emphatically but he still needs to
keep a check on him, why? <snip>
> 
>Carol responds:
I'm in the camp (not surprisingly) that interprets "completely" to
mean "completely," meaning "in every respect." Frankly, I don't see
how any other interpretation is possible. (Whether DD is right or
wrong to trust Snape completely is of course, another matter. I think
he is, but we'll find out for sure in Book 7.)

As for your interpretation of the quotation from PoA, DD also trusts
Harry completely, yet he frequently scrutinizes him as if performing
Legilimency on him. But in this case, why use Legilimency on Snape,
who is stating his feelings quite clearly and not concealing anything
that I can see?

Just possibly, DD is attempting to use mutual Legilimency to send
Snape a message, letting him know, perhaps, that he believes Black's
story and will later tell Snape why. But Snape still believes his own
version of events (Black is a murderer, werewolf!Lupin was helping
him, the business about a rat is a "fairy story" that only kids under
a Confundus charm would fall for (and it certainly is far-fetched and
unexpected even to the reader. I was certainly suspicious of the story
the first time I read it until the point where Pettigrew is turned
back into a man, which Snape doesn't see because he's unconscious).

BTW, it's clear from the context that CAPSLOCK!Snape is furious about
"Potter" helping Black escape--nothing to do with the loss of the
Order of Merlin. Note that Lupin, who presents this theory, is not
present to witness this scene.

Carol, noting that DD's faith in Snape is not damaged by this incident
and seems to increase with every book