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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 143051

 
> > 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? 

Nora:
> 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...

Pippin:
Okayyy, but if we allow  Dumbledore to instantly and silently grasp Snape's 
intentions, from the context or something,  even if they're radically different 
than what he expected  (otherwise there's no reversal) why is it that 
Snape couldn't have instantly grasped Dumbledore's, which aren't even silent? 

Why would Dumbledore make such a highly,  literally elliptic plea
if he didn't expect to be understood?

Pippin