The choice is clear to me(and I like Severus!). But there are ways, and tehre are ways, as my mom from Brooklyn would say.
Yes, and Dumbledore seems to take the wrong way with Snape a lot. Their personalities are so different, I think they're both making assumptions about how the other thinks and will react, and then get rude shocks when that doesn't pan out.
And there are long ranging consequences. Do you really think that Snape would have forgiven Dumbledore for lying to his face?
No, of course not. This is Snape, Grudge-holder Extraordinair. I do wonder if Snape knows *how* much Dumbledore did that night in PoA. At the moment, I think Snape only thinks that Dumbledore cut his feet out from under him in the Infirmary. If Snape realizes that Dumbledore not only did that but also orchestrated Sirius' escape to the extent he did, I think it would destroy Snape.
It's bad enough not to be believed when you are in the right. But to be deliberately set up to be humiliated? By someone you trust so much? Snape would NOT be able to forgive Dumbledore.
Do you really think that after seeing how Dumbledore treated a member of his own and staff, and then finding out a Werewolf was on the grounds do you really think that Fudge would believe much of anything Dumbledore has to say about teh dark forces. If I were Fudge, I wouldn't- or treated everything this person said with a shake of salt.
Not only does is there the werewolf issue, but Fudge sees Snape fly apart in the most disturbing manner. That had to make an impression on him -- and quite possibly accounts for why Snape revealing the Dark Mark at the end of GoF failed to convince Fudge that the Dark Lord was back. Fudge had already seen Snape go off the rails when he overreacted to Sirius Black's escape -- why would Fudge interpret Snape's reaction to the reappearance of the Dark Mark as anything other that Snape flipping out *again*?
In other words, Dumbledore's actions at the end of PoA bites him in the tuckus at the end of GoF.
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Date: 2004-05-29 12:29 am (UTC)Yes, and Dumbledore seems to take the wrong way with Snape a lot. Their personalities are so different, I think they're both making assumptions about how the other thinks and will react, and then get rude shocks when that doesn't pan out.
And there are long ranging consequences. Do you really think that Snape would have forgiven Dumbledore for lying to his face?
No, of course not. This is Snape, Grudge-holder Extraordinair. I do wonder if Snape knows *how* much Dumbledore did that night in PoA. At the moment, I think Snape only thinks that Dumbledore cut his feet out from under him in the Infirmary. If Snape realizes that Dumbledore not only did that but also orchestrated Sirius' escape to the extent he did, I think it would destroy Snape.
It's bad enough not to be believed when you are in the right. But to be deliberately set up to be humiliated? By someone you trust so much? Snape would NOT be able to forgive Dumbledore.
Do you really think that after seeing how Dumbledore treated a member of his own and staff, and then finding out a Werewolf was on the grounds do you really think that Fudge would believe much of anything Dumbledore has to say about teh dark forces. If I were Fudge, I wouldn't- or treated everything this person said with a shake of salt.
Not only does is there the werewolf issue, but Fudge sees Snape fly apart in the most disturbing manner. That had to make an impression on him -- and quite possibly accounts for why Snape revealing the Dark Mark at the end of GoF failed to convince Fudge that the Dark Lord was back. Fudge had already seen Snape go off the rails when he overreacted to Sirius Black's escape -- why would Fudge interpret Snape's reaction to the reappearance of the Dark Mark as anything other that Snape flipping out *again*?
In other words, Dumbledore's actions at the end of PoA bites him in the tuckus at the end of GoF.