Dumbledore and TrustSnape rant

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 73365

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- 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.....

I agree with your observations, that things might have been very 
different had Snape been able to separate the son from the father. I 
just can't understand DD miscalculating so completely the level of 
enmity between them. And from Harry's behaviour after Sirius' death, 
I don't have much hope for them coming to any resolution. People keep 
comparing this conflict to WWII but I thought people worked together 
against a common enemy during the War. I just wonder when the two of 
them are going to realize they have a much greater foe to overcome.
Jennifer