Reason Dumbledore trusted Snape

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 171743

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> va32h:
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> Where do we see secretly-thinks-he-deserves the Marauders' abuse in 
> canon either? At least I don't. 
> 

Pippin:
If there's anything in Snape's memories that shows social confidence,
I must have missed it. And it's social inferiority I'm talking about.
Lupin picks up on it, he says James was the person Snape wished he
could be. 

If Snape could have said, "Oh, haha James, very funny" instead of
roaring ineffectual curses, he wouldn't have been so much fun to tease.
I understand why he didn't; it would have felt crushing. But that's my
point. If he had real self-confidence, he wouldn't have cared.

Pippin