Snape (was:JKR, Harry Potter, and the Nature of Evil)

[Demelza]

No: HPFGUIDX 19663

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., JamiDeise at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/28/2001 2:33:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> lj2d30 at g... writes:
> 
> << I trust Snape because Dumbledore trusts him. >>
> 
> For this reason, I do too, although I don't like him, and I don't 
think 
> there's some deep wellspring of human compassion underneath it all. 
However, 
> this whole "trusting because Dumbledore trusts," while it obviously 
works 
> with Hagrid, Sirius and Lupin ... well, obviously Dumbledore trusted 
Quirrell 
> ... and Lockhart ... so his judgment's not infallible ...
> 

Don't forget Dumbledore trusted Moody/Crouch Jr. for an entire school 
year. I have a suspicion that as the books progress, Harry, Ron and 
Hermione will learn that people do make mistakes. They've 
already learnt that books and documents aren't necessarily the 
be-all-that-ends-all, for example the Animagi Registry. "Trusting 
because Dumbledore trusts" is alittle too elementary.

-Demelza