Two scenes for most everyone

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 144269

> Amiable Dorsai:
> Here I'm forced to disagree.  I read this as McGonagall finally
> voicing doubts that she had long suppressed out of respect for
> Dumbledore.  She, and the others in the room, certainly took Harry's
> word for Snape's guilt very quickly.  No one suggested that Harry
> might have been mistaken, or mentioned any of the plethora of ways
> that a wizard might be framed.  No, they take Harry's unsupported word
> for it.
> 
> This, to me, indicates that Snape had built no reservior of trust with
> his colleagues.  That their suspicions were allayed only by
> Dumbledore's word, not by respect for Snape himself.
> 
> I believe that McGonagall tolerated Snape because Dumbledore asked her
> to, not because she respected him as a fellow professional.  That we
> didn't see overt disdain from her (as we did for Umbridge, Trelawney,
> and Lockhart) because Snape, unlike the other three, was slick enough
> not to provoke it from her directly.

Pippin:
I think you are not taking into account the immense upset that everyone
is feeling and the awe everyone now has for Harry himself. As Snape told 
us in the beginning, in their panic and shock at losing their master, 
the Death Eaters would have looked to Harry as a standard to rally around.

The Ministry wants to use Harry too, knowing that everyone
will believe the Chosen One if he even implies that the Ministry  is doing
a  good job.

 Now it is the Order and the teachers who have lost their leader, feel
under attack, and rally around Harry. They believe him about Snape,
but they'd believe him about anything, IMO. In fact, we see the same 
dynamic at work in CoS, where the teachers rally around Snape and 
turn on Lockhart. 

People tend to be inaccurate about their past feelings too--
there's a natural tendency for people to pretend to themselves that
they saw something coming even when they didn't. Like Harry, who suddenly
thinks that he's been seeing the Prince's book as increasingly nasty
all along, when there's nothing in canon to show this, and a lot of
canon where Harry has been fiercely defending the Prince.


Pippin