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

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 143049

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:

> Pippin:
> Um, so now Dumbledore and Snape have exchanged some instant silent
> communication? Isn't that a new thought for you?
> Because as you say at this point Snape has not yet come forward or
> donned his look of revulsion and hatred. How exactly is it that 
> Dumbledore realized he was wrong? 

Not silent communication, no; it's just interesting that Dumbledore 
reacts with 'pleading' as soon as Snape walks into the room, wand in 
hand, looking around at everyone else.  Something is firing in 
Dumbledore's mind at once, and whatever it is, Harry's rather dismayed 
by it because it's exceptional.  Dumbledore's tone doesn't change, but 
then you get the highly elliptical "Severus...please..."

Ahem.  No silent communication (implying reciprocality) needed.  Just 
recognition, which can be fairly sudden, that things have gone not as 
he expected them to...

-Nora must be losing her precision of argument or something...