First lesson WAS: Re: Marietta, was Slytherin's Reputation

[pippin_999]

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Trekkie:
> And 'Dumbledore doesn't make it easier, since he never ever steps in
and  tells him to behave. Thereby silently endorsing Snape's
behaviour. So  yes, Dumbledore is at LEAST as much at fault as Snape.
Perhaps even 
> more, because as someone mentioned earlier, Snape is as emotionally 
> crippled as Sirius, albeit in a different way.
> 
> But Dumbledore knew both of them and should have known better.
> 

Pippin:
How is Dumbledore supposed to make it easier?

 What's he supposed to say, "Stop acting like an emotional cripple or
I'll have to sack you"? How would that work? He might as well tell
Moody not to limp. There is no treatment for chronic emotional
distress in the WW, beyond confinement in St Mungo's for those who
aren't capable of observing the statutes of secrecy. 

Besides, we don't know what Dumbledore's plan B was. It might have
been getting someone else to protect Harry, but it could just as
easily have been giving Harry up for lost and finding someone else to
destroy the remaining soul bit ( since Dumbledore did not yet guess
there was more than one.)

Pippin