Thoughts Regarding Snape

[colebiancardi]

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> zgirnius wrote:
> Albus Dumbledore:
> (HBP, "The Lightning-Struck Tower", addressed at Draco Malfoy)
> "I appreciate the difficulty of your position. Why else do you
> think I have not confronted you before now? Because I knew you would
> have been murdered if Lord Voldemort realized that I suspected you."
> 
> Thank you, Professor, I could not have said it better myself.
> 
> 
> vmonte wrote:
> That quote says that Dumbledore suspected, not that he was sure. That 
> does not say that Snape told Dumbledore anything.
>
colebiancardi:

I read that line to be that DD knew ("I knew you would have been
murdered") and the suspected bit was on LV's side, not DD's side.  

I think that Snape told DD about Draco - afterall, Snape was
investigating his house and then we have the argument in the forest
that Hagrid overheard.  

also, in "A Sluggish Memory", when Harry tells DD about the
conversation with Snape & Draco, DD tells Harry

"..I understand everything you told me....I think you might even
consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.  Again,
I am glad that you have confided in me, but let me reassure you that
you have not told me anything that causes me disquiet"

p. 358-359 HBP Am Ed Hardcover
Harry begins to think that either a) DD ordered Snape to find out what
Draco was up to and that DD already knows this from Snape or b) that
DD was really worried but was pretending not to be...(of course, Harry
would think that, knowning how he feels about Snape)

If Snape is DDM, most likely it is option a - that DD already knew
about Draco way before the events in the tower.

colebiancardi