It's over, Snape is evil (was: Dumbledore and Snape again)

[lealess]

No: HPFGUIDX 138561

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zgirnius" <zgirnius at y...> 
wrote:
>HUGE SNIPPAGE
> Early in the book Dumbledore makes the commment to Harry 
that "being-
> forgive me-rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be 
> correspondingly huger". Many have taken this to be foreshadowing 
that 
> DD will make a BIG mistake later in the book. You, I feel sure, 
would 
> say that this mistake was made years ago, and was trusting Snape. 
Fair 
> enough... My feeling, however, is that this mistake was made in the 
> course of HBP, and was to brush off Harry's warning that Draco was 
> celebrating some significant accomplishment in the Room of 
Requirements 
> the night DD planned the trip to the Cave. It was this mistake that 
> made the resolution of the Vow dilemma I propose above impossible 
to 
> carry out.

A few of Dumbledore's huger mistakes:

1) Failing to effectively deal with Tom Riddle when he was at 
Hogwarts.
2) Failing to recognize the damage done to Severus Snape by the 
Prank, among, perhaps, other things.
3) Failing to intervene to protect Harry Potter when he was living 
with the Dursleys.
4) Failing to give Harry Potter and perhaps Severus Snape, not to 
mention the staff at Hogwarts and members of the Order, important 
information on things like how he got that creepy hand injury, and 
why he trusts certain people. (As for the latter, I was thinking, 
maybe it was Snape who asked Dumbledore to take an unbreakable vow to 
not reveal the true reason that led to his unstinting trust.)

Did he really say "huger"?  It just sounds wrong.

lealess