Dumbledore and TrustSnape rant

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 73361

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bibphile" <bibphile at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> 
> wrote:
> > Considering their history, can you really picture Harry telling 
> Snape anything? 
> I've got to disagee with you here.  Snape was wrong.  I'm not going 
> to argue with you on that.  But Harry knew Snape was member of the 
> order.  He should have gone to Snape.  If I'm not mistaken (and I 
> maay be)  Harry specifically wishes there were a member of the 
order 
> still at the school.  There was.
>

Two points. Firstly, I think OOTP indicates that Harry suddenly 
realised that 
he had overlooked the fact that Snape was still around.

Secondly, looking at the whole question of the relationship between 
Snape and 
Harry, Dumbledore comments in OOTP "..I forgot....that some wounds 
run too deep for the healing. I thought Professor Snape could 
oversome his feelings about your father.."

In PS, Snape reveals his intense dislike of Harry from the word go. 
Harry is faced with this without knowing why. If Snape had managed to 
control his dislike of Harry notwithstanding the fact that Harry was 
physically very like James (and falling into the trap of treating 
Harry as being James), the contact between the two might have been 
totally different. But this is true of real life. We made judgments 
on people 
we meet in the first few minutes; wrong judgments can cause problems 
for years.....