DD trust in Snape again. WAS: Evil Hermione

[amiabledorsai]

No: HPFGUIDX 154825

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 he could 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.

AD:
Snape and Voldemort--we need consider only Voldemort's motives,
Quirrell's pretty much just the horse he's riding--have entirely
different motives.

Snape's got a job--probably a much better one than he could get
anywhere else, given his history--and Dumbledore's continuing
protection, right up until Dumbledore decides he was wrong about
Snape, after all.  Snape needs to preserve that relationship for as
long as he can.  

Voldemort's going for the big prize.  Once he gets the Philosopher's
Stone, he's outta there.  If he can croak "The one with the power to
defeat the Dark Lord", along the way, so much the better.  He can
weather a bit of suspicion from Dumbledore, and the Aurors have a much
better suspect in Snape.


Pippin:
> All the reasons you gave for Snape wanting Harry dead would
> also be motives for Harry to fake the attack and falsely blame
> Snape.

AD:
I'm confused.  All along, I've been arguing that Snape needs Harry
alive.  

Pippin:
> Harry himself notices this, and that's the reason he doesn't
> take Hermione's suspicions to anyone but Hagrid.

AD:
Interesting.  Is this canon, or your inference?

Pippin:
> 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.

AD:
I'm sorry, Pippin, but could you elaborate this?  I honestly don't see
where you're going with it.  (BTW, Hermione suspected Snape right
away--she shouted "I knew it!" when she spotted him through the
binoculars.)

Amiable Dorsai