Saving Harry was Secrecy (Was: Re: It's over, Snape is evil)

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> > Pippin:
> <SNIP>
> > What if Harry wins with assistance that only he could have won?
You
> > know, Frodo saved by Gollum, Luke saved by Vader, that kind of 
> thing.
> 
> First of all, I think a huge percentage of her readers would roll 
> their eyes and say "So you never finished LotR, huh, Jo?  So you 
> aren't doing Star Wars?  Yeah, right."

Pippin:
That percentage of readers will be revealing their ignorance of 
chivalric legends, from which all three works are derived. 
Lancelot could be considered the ancestor of all
traitorous comrades who eventually come to the kingdom's aid.
TH White even conceived him as being ugly and sadistic, though 
there's no basis for that in Mallory.

Lupinlore:
Second, how would winning Snape's help be something "only Harry could 
 do" if Snape is in fact super spy?  

Presumably Snape would help any  member of team Dumbledore out to 
bring down Voldemort.  

Pippin:
Harry is Snape's sole  accuser and only he can withdraw the charge of
murder. No matter what he knows, Snape cannot bring aid to 
the Order  while Harry and everyone else still believes he is false.  

Dumbledore is clear that people are to be judged by their choices,
and by the honest intent of those choices, not the results, since few 
can foretell the consequences of their actions.  Harry does not know 
what Snape's choices on the Tower were, or what he intended by them. 

He has made assumptions based on hatred, which is  not the power
that Voldemort knows not. When he abandons hate, perhaps he will
gain more insight into what happened. 

Pippin