[HPforGrownups] Re: Did Snape betray his friends? Round 2

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 34781

Greetings from Andrew!

It's all a matter of degree....

--- Marjorie Dawson <mdawson.design at dial.pipex.com>
wrote:
{snip}

> 
> Trust only comes in one form "complete" or not at
> all.

First, welcome aboard!

Second, I have found that trust for me is almost
identical to respect, in that it is a matter of
degree.  There are some folks in my profession who I
respect to the point of open admiration; others I
respect only because they, too, have gone over the
same jumps I have.  In the matter of trust, there are
quite a few people that I would trust with the keys to
my office, fewer that I would trust with the key to my
Morgan, and there are four still alive today that I
would trust behind my back with a loaded weapon.

So, for me, this is not a binary issue; like most
things in life, the spectrum's pretty much an analogue
one.

>  There is a degree of affection going back many
> years with Hagrid.  This is, in Snape's case,
> replaced with Dumbledore's respect at Snape's skills
> as Potions Professor and, possibly, as yet unkown
> "deeds" (also under discussion at length on this
> list....) and which will probably play some part in
> the next book; bearing in mind the nature of his
> departure at the end of GoF.


The above sounds, almost paradoxically, as if you see
the matter of respect and trust as I do...and this
also appears to be contradictory to your opening
statement.

Cheers,

Drieux

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