Snape Survey, Snapeity, Dumbledore's sacrifice.

[Neri]

No: HPFGUIDX 149240

> Pippin:
> <snip>
> Canon doesn't show Dumbledore being shocked

Neri:
You know, I just had a thought. Maybe Dumbledore really wasn't shocked
on the tower. Maybe he had always expected, or at least taken into
consideration, that Snape might betray him.

So why was he saying time and again that he trusted Snape completely?

Ah, but I don't remember Dumbledore ever saying *what* he trusted
Snape to do. Did Dumbledore ever say something like "I trust Snape to
be completely loyal to me"? Not that I recall. It was always just "I
trust Severus Snape completely". Yes, yes, that's very nice of you, we
really appreciate it and everything, but *what* do you trust him to do???

Well, I'm betting he wasn't trusting Snape to hand out sweets. And I
also suspect he wasn't trusting Snape to be loyal to Dumbledore, or to
the Order.

But it appears that when Snape betrayed Dumbledore on the tower, he
was still doing the thing that Dumbledore had always trusted him to
do. And in fact Dumbledore knew, or at least he pleaded with Snape,
that Snape would continue doing it even after betraying and killing
Dumbledore. Actually, maybe after killing Dumbledore, Snape would be
in a better position to do just the thing that Dumbledore had always
trusted him to do.

Like, say, keep trying to repay a certain Debt?
 

Neri