Snape's Betrayal and the Themes of Book Seven (LONG)

[Lexa_C]

No: HPFGUIDX 133245

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "inkling108" <inkling108 at y...> 
wrote:

> A person in a position of leadership must be able 
> to trust their own instincts and think for themselves, even in the 
> face of opposition from their advisors.
> 
> For a long time now, Harry has had a strong intuition that Snape 
was 
> untrustworthy, that he hadn't really gone to the good side.  
> Dumbledore and Hermione, his two most reliable advisors up til now, 
> kept telling him he was wrong.
(snipped)
> Now Harry has learned the hard way that even the wisest can be 
> wrong, that he must never ignore a strong intuition again, no 
matter 
> what other people say, no matter how much he may love and respect 
> those others.


You mean the way he did when he trusted Snape - trusted the Half-
Blood Prince in the margins of his textbook, over the objections of 
those around him, and even liked him when the personal baggage 
between them was stripped away?

Just a thought: Harry *does* trust Snape. Instinctively. Implicitly. 
As long as he doesn't know it's *Snape.* I have to wonder what that 
says about Harry's instincts and the impact his emotions can have on 
them.

-Alexa