DD trust in Snape again. WAS: Evil Hermione

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 154797

AD:
> I am not arguing that Snape is ESE!, OFH!, or even Mostly Good But
> With A Bug Up His Arse About Anyone Named Potter (MGBWABUHAAANP!), but
> I do assume that DDM! Snape will try to save Harry as a matter of
> course, so only the other flavors of Snape need be assumed to be
> acting to throw off suspicion. 
> 
> And none of Snape's 57 varieties will want Dumbledore to even suspect
> that he might have tried to kill Harry, or that he failed to act when
> hecould have to prevent Harry's death.

Pippin:
Odd, then, that Quirrell does not reason the same way. He *does*
try to kill Harry. He is investigated. He does exactly what I would 
expect a guilty Snape to do. He keeps his cool (while acting innocently
flustered and nervous) and denies everything. He could have done much
the same if his plan had succeeded and Harry had died. 


All the reasons you gave for Snape wanting Harry dead would
also be motives for Harry to fake the attack and falsely blame 
Snape. Harry himself notices this, and that's the reason he doesn't
take Hermione's suspicions to anyone but Hagrid. Not to mention
that if Snape hadn't interfered in the attack, he wouldn't have
been staring fixedly at Harry, and Hermione wouldn't have 
suspected  him (*she* certainly doesn't know about his
DE past.) Neither would anyone else -- after all, even with
the attack on Harry unsolved, Snape was trusted enough to 
referee the next match. 
 

Pippin