Snape, Harry, Dumbledore and flaws in the books

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 106489

Pippin wrote:
>>> I think Dumbledore would consider it self-righteous in the 
extreme--as he says, he has no power to make other men see the truth.
Meaning, as McGonagall would put it, that he does have that
power, he's just too noble to use it. <<<

DZEYTOUN replied: 
>> And there is the problem. I don't find that noble. I find that
spineless and not at all admirable. <<

HunterGreen:
How is that spineless? He's not *afraid* of changing Snape, he just 
doesn't see that as his place. Yes, I know he's headmaster, but 
there's no real *reason* that Snape *has* to change his methods. (we 
could go in circles with this...but I don't see any reason Snape's 
methods are inappropriate for the school and society that *he is in*).