Changing the title because I'm tired of it, was "Some won't like it". The Sc

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No: HPFGUIDX 130063

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "festuco" <vuurdame at x> wrote:

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> What reason could Harry probably have not to trust Snape? 

Trust is a tricky thing.  There's a big difference between trusting 
someone because someone else vouches for them, and trusting someone 
because you yourself know (experientially too) that someone is 
trustworthy.  The latter is built out of experience and over time.

Think of Ron and Hermione and their contrasting perspectives.  
Hermione trusts Snape because Dumbledore does; she's willing to take 
him as The Truth And The Guide.  Ron doesn't trust Snape; he wants to 
know for himself, and is not willing to take the word of an 
interlocutor.

In my own Occlumency model (which I'm too lazy to pull up the post 
numbers of), it's rather like learning a martial art--which requires 
trust #2 and not trust #1.  You have to really truly know, in and of 
yourself and for yourself, that someone can be trusted.

And I would humbly submit that all the little things of Snape's 
behavior had added up to a situation where Harry knows on level #1 
that Snape is to be trusted, but not level #2--and this profoundly 
damaged the attempt to learn something so based in the self as 
Occlumency, not to mention daily functioning.

-Nora needs to get back on the mat herself