Who to Trust?; WAS: The Second Prophecy plus a correction

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No: HPFGUIDX 118091


Chrusotoxos wrote:
Wh-what are you people THINKING about??! *splutters*  ... Ok, for a 
book having nice jolts and fake clues, but I really think that here 
we're going out of HP and into Stephen King... *rolls her eyes*

Then Bookworm:
Did you know that Stephen King is one of JKR's biggest fans?

Chrusotoxos wrote:
I really can't believe that someone out there is distrusting 
Sirius...I mean, I'm not in love with him, dead or not. I think he's 
handsome, brilliant and ironical, but godamn arrogant and immature. 
But he's on the good side. Was. <snip>

Bookworm:
Actually, if you read annemehr's and my posts closely, you will see 
that we both agree that Sirius and Remus Lupin are Not ESE.  We were 
disagreeing with the conspiracy theorists.

Chrusotoxos wrote:
Dumbledore trusted Sirius. And if we can't trust Dumbledore, we can't 
trust anyone...

Bookworm:
That's what many are asking – *can* we trust Dumbledore?  ...  
Dumbledore has proven to be fallible.  Will Harry continue to trust 
him? Can he?

Kim chiming in:
What I see is that Dumbledore is *essentially* trustworthy, but being 
fallible (and why should he *not* be fallible?), there are times he 
can't be completely trusted.  But who can tell when those times are? 
Ditto for Sirius and Lupin.  To make a strange paraphrase, you can't 
trust some of the people all of the time...  hmmm, not very good.  
How about:  Everybody on the good side is trustworthy, but some are 
more trustworthy than others (and none of them can be trusted all of 
the time...)  That's at least less cynical than "Trust no one, my 
friend" or "The only thing in life you can trust is work."  Speaking 
for myself, I trust Dumbledore most of the time because he has 
already proven to be trustworthy most of the time (and by 
trustworthy, I mean trustworthy to Harry, Hagrid, and co., to the 
good side, the side I care most about; whereas to Voldemort, Bella, 
and co., to the bad side, Dumbledore is pretty untrustworthy).

Then again, during the 1 per cent of the time that very trustworthy 
people can't be trusted, they can make really big mistakes...

Time for an aspirin break.   Kim