Why didn't Snape turn Harry in?

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No: HPFGUIDX 159160

> Jen: I took that one at face value at the time even though it 
seemed 
> a little childish. Now I'm wondering about it. Hermione is 
assuming 
> Snape was a betrayer when she said that and therefore would also 
> assume the story Snape told Dumbledore was a lie. Seeing the 
spells 
> that were later used by DE's (Levicorpus) in Snape's book would 
give 
> away the lie in her mind.
> 
> *If* this was her logic it rings false to me. Like Magpie said, 
> Dumbledore was aware what kind of kid Snape was in school and 
likely 
> knew about the injury James sustained with the cut on his face or 
> that Levicorpus was used by many of the students and later by 
DE's. 


Alla:

I reread Magpie's post again and still not hundred percent sure 
whether she asked the question allowing for Evil or OFH! Snape or 
only for DD!M Snape. Sorry!

Because if Snape is not as faithful to Dumbledore, hehe, I see no 
problem with Hermione's answer, but with some clarification.

Absolutely, I think Dumbledore knew what kind of kid Snape was, well 
mostly anyways.

But let's imagine for a second two possibilities:

one there could be something in the book ( spell or potion) that 
somehow connected with why Dumbledore trusts Snape. What if this 
spell or potion would reveal to Dumbledore that he really should not 
have trusted Snape when he came back, like I don't know - Snape lied 
to him as to what this potion or spell does or something like that?

That is not Snape hiding his youthful in discretions, that would be 
revealing something connected to pivotal lies, if that makes sense?

Second possibility IMO would be something in the book connected to 
the Prank, which Dumbledore may not have known and which would make 
Snape look complicit? I mean, I doubt that, I think *my memory is as 
good as ever* means that Dumbledore knows a lot more than we do 
about that night, on the other hand he really did not know that they 
were animagi, so who knows?

And we know that we will learn more about that night in book 7.

Why would Snape want to hide it from DD, even if he is DD!M? Well, 
ego, I'd say, and that it much nicer to parade in front of 
Dumbledore that Sirius Black tried to kill HIM than erm... not.

 

Jen:
<SNIP>
> Another thought--the book may never be retrieved. That room 
> was...well, it was sort of a graveyard. Maybe the Half-Blood 
Prince 
> died that night. If it was a symbolic moment, then either Snape's 
> secret alter-ego died, the part of him which later blossomed into 
a 
> DE, or else whatever good was left in him.


Alla:

Oh, my God, LOVE it, Jen.

JMO,

Alla