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

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No: HPFGUIDX 144890

buvuturo wrote: <snip>
> 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." <snip>
and
> 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." <snip>


CH3ed:
O, but James really was not involved in the prank. What DD left out 
was Snape's assumption that James was in on or approved of Sirius' 
reckless prank. Lupin's account in PoA makes it clear that James 
didn't know what Sirius had done until Snape had gone following 
Lupin into the tunnel. James then learnt what Sirius had done and 
went after Snape at a great risk to himself (he had not transformed 
into the Stag and even if he did he would have had a hard time 
trying to control the werewolf Lupin by himself without Sirius' 
help) to pull Snape out before he get to the Shrieking Shack. 
Snape's version was actually the inaccurate one that added his own 
assumption of James' involvement in Sirius' plot. 

The one scene where I think DD might have intentionally hid 
something factual from Harry is in OotP when DD showed Harry the 1st 
prophecy. They didn't go into the pensieve to see the whole thing, 
instead DD had this watery Trelawny rise up from the pensieve to 
tell it (so that Harry didn't see the interruption of the prophecy 
by Snape). 

CH3ed