What did DD intend to say to Harry?

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Lupinlore:

>In a recent conversation with Charme, we found that we had an
>interesting difference of opinion with regard to the confrontation
>between DD and Harry at the end of OOTP.  I read DD's early 
statements
>about "you are not as mad at me as you should be," etc., to be purely
>in regard to the failures of OOTP.  I think that DD only decided to
>come clean about "everything" after Harry's "People don't like to be
>locked up!" outburst.

>Charme, however, reads the "mad" statement as saying Harry isn't as
>mad as he should be about everything DD has done to/for/about him. 
>Thus, DD intended from the beginning to "come clean."

>I just wondered how other people out there read this scene.  Did DD 
go
>into the confrontation intending to tell Harry everything, which
>implies a broader meaning to "not as mad..." or did he only decide to
>do so midway through the conversation?

I think he went into the conversation still committed to telling 
Harry as little as possible.  He had kept him in the dark for months, 
in a misguided attempt to "protect" him and that would be a very 
difficult habit to break.  Obviously, he had to spill the beans about 
the prophecy, since that little cat was out of the bag, but I don't 
think he wanted to get into the rest of it at all.  There are still 
plenty of questions DD hasn't answered for Harry, chiefly, why Snape 
should be trusted.  I think he gave Harry enough to satisfy him at 
that moment, but not enough to give him any peace of mind.  Harry is 
still in the dark about too many things and I think the time is long 
past for Dumbledore to start treating him like an adult.  He might 
still be a child, but many people don't realize that children can 
handle the truth a lot better than they can handle secrets and 
misdirection.

Nicky Joe