"An old man's mistakes"

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 138938

>  Merry Kinsella <merylanna at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > I think Dumbledore's mistakes were, in Book 5, the whole thing 
he did 
> > about keeping distant from Harry, not telling him everything 
that was going 
> > on, because he wanted to protect him. <snip> 

Lady Indigo: 
> Ironic that, if Snape is innocent, Dumbledore seems to be doing 
that exact 
> same thing again. Maybe his reason for secrecy is more ironclad 
this time? 
<snip>


Alla:

That is one of the reasons I think that Snape is not innocent. I 
want to believe that Dumbledore indeed learned his lessons in OOP 
and would not have kept the information from Harry in HBP, knowing 
how much is on the line, knowing how much would depend on Harry 
trusting Snape if necessary.

I mean I am not the big fan of Dumbledore's last speech in OOP and 
in generally Dumbledore in OOP, but he seemed to be genuinely 
remorseful for what his mistakes caused Harry and I doubt that he 
would repeat them all over again in HBP.


I don't know. Posters keep saying that Dumbledore would be shown as 
a fool, if his trust in Snape would not be justified after all. I 
will not go into whole " he had been wrong many many times in his 
judgment of people" again, but personally I would much rather 
forgive Dumbledore giving his trust to person who did not deserve 
it, because it is a mistake which IMO shows kindness and generousity 
of Dumbledore's spirit than Dumbledore being a fool a gain and going 
for total secrecy.


Just my opinion of course,

Alla