Dumbledore's intentional misleading (Re: A Question of Which Book)

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No: HPFGUIDX 144882


> Bianca <bianca.slate at g...> wrote:
> > In the US paperback edition of POA, Chapter 14, page 285, 

> Geoff:
> The following might be what you are looking for....
> (PS "The Man with Two Faces" p.217 UK edition)


Thanks.  This is the canon proof I knew I had read, in which
Dumbledore knowingly mislead Harry about the true nature of 
Snape's grudge against James Potter and the Marauders.  

Instead of telling Harry that his father and friends had been 
involved in a dangerous prank that could have proved fatal for 
Snape, Dumbledore told a partial truth that suggested to Harry 
that Snape was an ungrateful git, not the nearly murdered party 
in a violent conflict between him and the Marauders.

While wanting to keep Lupin's secrets, Dumbledore does so at 
Snape's expense.

In POA, Snape's reply to Harry also keeps Lupin's name out of 
it, but he gave a more factual account, in that he was put at 
risk of death, and that James Potter would have been expelled 
if he had not intervened.

Snape could have added that the Ministry would have executed 
the werewolf student, and probably held a hearing to determine 
on who's authority Dumbledore had admitted a 'dark creature' as 
a student, therein revealing even more secrets, but Snape did 
not.  He kept his words on target, and only revealed what was 
absolutely necessary.

Anyone have any more examples of Dumbledore's intentional 
misleading?

Thanks again,

Bianca