Trusting Dumbledore (was: Snape and Dumbledores trust)

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 54718



On 2 Apr 2003 at 16:29, the.gremlin at verizon.net wrote:

> DD doesn't lie,
> and misleading is as good as a lie. 

I have to step in and add something here.  I agree, Dumbledore doesn't lie.  You 
can trust what Dumbledore says to be the truth.  But I must say here that, used with 
cleverness and cunning, truth can be terribly misleading, and Dumbledore is quite 
good at doing just that.  There have been quite a few timesso far when Dumbledore 
has said something in a very specific way, where his words are perfectly true, but 
they mean two completely different things, depending on what ELSE you know 
about the situation.  One such is from the end of PoA, when Harry and Hermione 
have returned from their TimeTurner trek, and Snape is spitting mad about Sirius' 
escape, and is INSISTING (quite correctly, of course) that Potter was involved.  
Dumbledore says something like, "Unless you mean to imply that (the kids) could be 
in two places at once, I think there's no need to bother them further."  Every word 
true, of course, but it doesn't mean what it sounds like.

I feel that yes, we can trust every word out of Dumbledore's mouth to be true and 
correct.  That' doesn't mean that we can trust his words to mean what we think they 
do.

Tammy