TBAY: Definitely NOT a Snape Theory (long)

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No: HPFGUIDX 145250

>> Lastly, Neri asks:
>> DDM too requires an explanation why Dumbledore refused to give his 
>> reasons to trust Snape. What's the DDM explanation?

> SSSusan:
> Well, I know you don't like this, but one possibility is LOLLIPOPS.  
> IOW, when DD considered telling Harry the reason in HBP... paused... 
> but elected not to... it might have been that he believed the 
> revelation simply too personal.

Christina:

The reason Dumbledore trusts Snape doesn't have to have anything to do
with Lily (although I personally think it does) for DDM to explain why
DD didn't give Harry this information.  Harry is a 16-year-old boy. 
Snape is a 36-year-old man who is certainly no buddy of Harry's.  I
don't understand why Dumbledore even needs a reason to keep his
reasons for trusting Snape private- because they are, as Susan said,
*private.*  The reason that DD trusts Snape just *isn't any of Harry's
business.*  Now Dumbledore should have realized from the happenings in
OotP that Harry isn't the sort to trust DD blindly on issues like
Snape's loyalty, but that still doesn't mean that it's OK for DD to
break a confidence with Snape to answer Harry's concerns.  Maybe LV
sent Snape to kill kittens and babies, maybe his mother was raped,
maybe he and Lily were pals, maybe it has to do with Regulus Black-
heck, maybe it's something much more mundane concerning Snape's ideals
or political opinions.  It doesn't matter what the reason is; turning
from Voldemort to Dumbledore was one of the biggest events in Snape's
life.  Whatever it was that made him turn is obviously deeply
personal, and DD has no right to go blabbing Snape's private life to a
kid (particularly one he has no close relationship with).

Christina