DD trust in Snape again. WAS: Evil Hermione

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 154889

wynnleaf wrote:
> <snip>
> > Thing is, Voldemort never gets to see a first hand look at how
Snape acts at Hogwarts.
> 
houyhnhnm responded:
> 
> Actually he does get a first hand look, during the very year in
question.  LV would have been privy to the whole conversation Quirrell
had with Harry in front of the Mirror.
> 
> I wonder how Snape got out of that one?  Apparently LV didn't share
the information with Bellatrix.  Surely she would have thrown the
broom incident up to Snape had she known about it.  Or he would have
included a rationalization for that incident in his answers to her
charges of disloyalty if he knew she knew about it.
>
Carol adds:

Voldemort would also have been privy to Snape's various conversations
and confrontations with Quirrell, including the remark about "where
your loyalties lie." I think Snape "got out of that one"--or actually
out of both the broom incident and thwarting Quirrell throughout
SS/PS--by telling Voldemort exactly what he told Bellatrix--that he
couldn't allow Harry to be killed in front of him because he would
lose Dumbledore's trust and that he didn't want "unworthy Quirrell" to
steal the Philosopher's Stone and did everything he could to thwart
him, ostensibly unaware that Quirrell was acting on LV's orders. (On a
side note, I think that Snape knew perfectly well whose agent Quirrell
was and even had his suspicions about that turban, which Quirrell had
not worn in his previous stint as DADA teacher. Snape and Dumbledore
both anticipated LV's return and DD must have had Hagrid take the
Stone from the vault because he anticipated that it would be stolen.
How he knew, I don't know, but he clearly did.) 

To return to the topic, I agree that Bellatrix didn't know about the
broom incident. Notice that Snape doesn't mention actually saving
Harry's life, nor does she accuse him of doing so as she would if she
knew about it. His assertion that he couldn't murder Harry or allow
him to be killed in front of him seems like a blanket statement
covering Quirrell, Crouch!Moody and any other potential Harry killer
Bellatrix might have heard about. Or it might have been a slip on his
part, like "sixteen" years of watching Dumbledore when he had only
been teaching for fifteen (and working with DD spying on the DEs for
an additional year). At least Snape is careful not to specify the
nature of Dumbledore's recent injury or his role in limiting the
damage to DD's hand rather than his life!

Carol, wondering why Quirrell was foolish enough to try to kill Harry
before he obtained the Sorceror's Stone given the risk of being caught