Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 19: The Servant of Lord Voldemort

[Joey Smiley]

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> > Joey:
> > Oh yes, he was wrong. :-) Snape didn't know that yet though. I was only saying that Snape could have considered the possibility that if DD can trust him for a specific reason then he could be doing the same to Lupin too i.e. have a private reason between him and Lupin that is not known to anyone else. :-)
 
> Pippin:
> But Snape also knows that Dumbledore can put his trust in the wrong person. Lupin was a prefect, trusted by Dumbledore to keep his fellow students in line, a job at which, by Lupin's own admission, he failed miserably. Snape, as Lupin says, has his reasons for not trusting him.

Joey:

Hmmm, thought-provoking point indeed. 

Mmmm... but then.. is the nature and enormity of trust similar? I mean the type of trust required for choosing prefects is different from the type required to select teachers, is it not? 

And, in the case of Snape and Lupin, they are huge decisions to make - selecting them as teachers - a person who was a DE once upon a time and a person who was very much a friend of a convicted mass murderer. Snape knows this too.

Whereas, when it somes to choosing prefects, DD has made even Lucius, Draco and Pansy prefects. Wonder what he saw in them though. It couldn't have been just excellence in academics - otherwise Pansy and Ron shouldn't have been prefects.

Cheers,
~Joey :-)