Thoughts Regarding Snape

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 171221


> vmonte wrote:
> That quote says that Dumbledore suspected, not that he was sure. That 
> does not say that Snape told Dumbledore anything.

zgirnius:
He claims to know.

Dumbledore:
(HBP, "The Lightning-Struck Tower", to Draco Malfoy)
"You almost killed Katie Bell and Ronald Weasley. You have been trying, 
with increasing desperation, to kill me all year."

zgirnius:
It is true he does not claim to Draco that Snape told him. However, he 
knows from Harry that Snape knows about Draco's task. That there was a 
task Voldemort assigned to Draco, was part of the discussion Harry 
overheard in "The Unbreakable Vow" and reported to Dumbledore in "A 
Sluggish Memory".

If Snape did not tell him, and he nonetheless continued to trust Snape, 
he was being rather foolish. Especially once he somehow came across the 
knowledge of what the task was from some alternative source, as you 
propose. (What source might that be, I wonder?)