Snape, Voldemort and the DADA position

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No: HPFGUIDX 165830

Carol:

> (An aside here: People have wondered why Snape 
> doesn't use Legilimency--not Occlumency--on Fake!Moody, 
> suspicious as he always is of the DADA teachers. But 
> it would hardly do to attempt Legilimency on *Moody*, 
> the Auror hired to protect Hogwarts during the TWT, 
> even if it could be done with that awful magical eye 
> looking right through you. And Fake!Moody's personal 
> dislike of him as a DE who "walked free" exactly matches 
> the real Moody's feelings. Snape can feel resentful 
> and even envious of DD's new righthand man without 
> figuring out that Fake!Moody is a DE in disguise.

houyhnhnm:

After several reads of GoF, I have the distinct 
impression that Snape is highly suspicious that 
Fake!Moody is a DE in disguise.  I think his failure 
to share that suspicion with Dumbledore (AFAWK) is 
due to his bad experience with Lupin and Sirius in 
PoA.  Part pique at DD for not listening to his doubts 
about Lupin, part chagrin at being wrong about Sirius.