[HPforGrownups] Re: What did DD intend to say to Harry?

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 124571

xcpublishing at yahoo.com suggests:

*large snip*

>There are still
>plenty of questions DD hasn't answered for Harry, chiefly, why Snape
>should be trusted.

Although I completely agree that Harry should now be in the Order's 
information loop (and possibly so should Ron and Hermione, who are the most 
likely to take collateral damage if and when Harry is attacked at Hogwarts), 
I also think that sometimes Harry will have to learn the meaning of the 
phrase "None of your business."

The origin of the trust between Dumbledore and Snape is clearly something 
very private and confidential.  It's also clearly mutual; Snape trusts 
Dumbledore, and I think there is some other reason besides the fact that 
Dumbledore vouched for him and kept him out of Azkaban although he was a 
known Death Eater.  Whatever the reason is, I believe Dumbledore won't tell 
Harry (or anyone else). Even before the Pensieve fiasco, such a violation of 
Snape's privacy and trust would  have lessened any hope of Snape and Harry 
working together in any capacity, and might also have damaged the trust 
relationship between him and Snape.  I don't even want to think about what 
it would do at this post-Pensieve point. :(

(I suspect Harry will find it out at some point, and therefore so will we 
the readers, but it won't be from Dumbledore.)


Janet Anderson