HBP interview

[nrenka]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
>> RightHandMan!Snape has been a popular theory before, but it's pretty 
>> nuked by this.  It is interesting to go back and think of things now 
>> with fewer assumptions that Snape and DD are working hand in hand.  
>> Potentially very damaging to a certain appliance, I think.  I like 
>> the idea of Snape being more of a loose canon and DD playing more of 
>> it by ear, though.
> 
> Pippin:
> Nah, it isn't. Everything she said about Dumbledore being too 
> trusting and too detached applies just as well to ESE!Lupin. 

I don't follow your logic, Pippin.  She says explicitly that Dumbledore 
has no confidantes:

"...I think you can see that in the books, because where is his equal, 
where is his confidante, where is his partner? He has none of those 
things. He's always the one who gives, he's always the one who has the 
insight and has the knowledge."

RHM!Snape has always posited them as practical partners in crime, 
working things out, where Snape always had Dumbledore's ear and was 
told to do lots of things.

Dumbledore being too trusting and too detached could apply to a lot of 
people.  You'll note I refrained from stating what else it could 
support. :)

-Nora cuts the fog with a knife; no Dementors here