Turning Point? (was Re: Dumbledore the General)

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No: HPFGUIDX 124387



> Lupinlore:
> Yes, I agree.  But I repeat, how in the world (Wizarding and Muggle)
> does that translate into not having an adult to turn to?  Once again,
> you have argued exactly the opposite.

Neri:
It is not exactly that he won't have adults to turn to, but that he
will not see the point of turning to them. It might be a situation
somewhat similar (although for other reasons) to his situation in
Christmas in OotP. He could have told any of the grownups in 12GP
(Sirius, Lupin, Molly, Moody) about his fear that he is possessed, but
he knew they wouldn't tell him the truth, the way Sirius didn't
(although he wanted to). We can have a similar situation throughout
HBP, because Harry wouldn't trust any of the grownups to do the right
thing, and not to keep information from him.

For example, consider a possible scenario: Harry sees something
(perhaps through his link with Voldy) that makes him seriously suspect
that Snape betrays the Order. So he goes to DD and tells him about it.
DD tells Harry that he trusts Snape, but he cannot tell Harry why.
This is something between DD and Snape, and besides it isn't possible
to tell Harry because the information might leak from his mind to
Voldy. So Harry is not satisfied with DD's decision, and he knows DD
had already made mistakes that led to Sirius' death. And what other
grownup can he turn to with his suspicions regarding DD? Then there
will be some emergency situation, and Harry will have to decide if to
act according to DD's opinion or according to his own knowledge, when
he does not even trust his own judgment anymore. 

In fact, in OotP JKR may have set the stage for a grand tragedy of
suspicion and mistrust within the triangle Harry-DD-Snape: Harry can't
trust Snape because he's Snape, and he can't trust DD anymore because
DD had already made critical mistakes of judgment in OotP. DD and
Snape in turn can't trust Harry because information from Harry's head
might leak to Voldy and because Voldy might affect Harry's mind. Snape
might not trust DD to stay loyal to him. He might be afraid that DD
will be affected by Harry's negative opinion on Snape (possibly based
on some past situation between James-DD-Severus). DD seems to still
trust Snape in general, but in the end of OotP he admitted that Snape
cannot be trusted to do the right thing where Harry is concerned. Now
we can have grand conflict of mistrust, enough to hold a whole book,
and it's all based on the setup in OotP.    

Neri