Power vs. Trust (was:The Possibilities of Grey Snape...)

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 143026


> Magpie:
> 
> Broke with tradition...or just played a variation on it?  Book VI 
> seemed to me like it was, as JKR has described it, a set up for 
Book 
> VII.  This is the first half of the final story, and in the middle 
of 
> the story Harry usually is mistaken as to what is going on.  HBP 
> resolved the Draco story, but possibly not the Snape story.  And 
the 
> Draco story (although it left him, too, at a place where he's 
poised 
> to tip in one of many potential directions--we have to see which 
way 
> he'll fall), for all the ways HBP's plot was different, it still 
> followed the pattern set out for Draco earlier, and seemed to me 
to 
> support the wisdom of Dumbledore's pov. 
> 


So Harry's wrong yet again?  That would be boring and insipid beyond 
belief, and if it's used as a way to release Snape from punishment 
for the abuse he's subjected Harry to, it would be morally corrupt 
to the point of inducing projectile vomiting.  

I agree with Nora.  Harry's been shown to be wrong a lot, and I for 
one am extremely tired of it and wouldn't find a DDM plot either 
intelligent or interesting.  Rather it would be a preachy and cheesy 
contrivance ham fistedly used to force an unbelievable ending.

You do have a point about certain kinds of Snape theories reducing 
Dumbledore to a plot device.  The problem with most DDM!Snape ideas 
is that they reduce HARRY to a plot device -- an excuse for the 
noble Severus Snape to make his awful sacrifice and this bring about 
victory for the side of light.  

As you say, Draco provides a model in which both sides are proven 
right, to a point.  Harry is right, but not completely right.  
Dumbledore is a mistaken and blind fool, but not completely mistaken 
and not completely blind.  Such a blending of endings and 
expectations, in which the various threads are tied up in a way that 
shows most clues and theories to have some degree of validity, may 
perhaps be a hint about what is to come.


Lupinlore