What mistakes Dumbledore made? Re: Loyalty & Trust

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No: HPFGUIDX 139802

> maddmorgan:
> Oh, I'm not arguing that Harry has no reason to dislike and 
distrust 
> Snape...He certainly does.  But Dumbledore's admission that he can
> make mistakes doesn't necessarily mean his trust in Snape is one. A 
little patience here...I'm not as deep a reader as some of you seem 
to be...but what mistakes of Dumbledore's have we actually seen? 
> Leaving Harry with the horrible Dursleys?  Not telling Harry the 
whole ugly truth right from the beginning?  The alternatives to those 
decisions might have been more damaging to the child, if not fatal.  
That he brought Riddle to Hogwarts in the first place? <snip>...What 
mistakes has Dumbledore made?


Alla:

Well, Dumbledore admits that not telling Harry the truth about 
prophecy had been a mistake at the end of OOP, so I am taking him at 
his word here :-)

Dursleys - don't want to go into Dursleys debate again, but yes, to 
me it was a mistake, but at least in HBP I was satisfied with the 
level of contempt Dumbledore showed them, IMO, so I finally bought 
that Dumbledore only did it to keep Harry alive.

I am convinced that Dumbledore does not have much understanding of 
psychological issues.

As he admits at the end of OOP, he forgot what does it mean to be 
young , how youth feels and  that hurt both Harry and Sirius ( 
parahrasing here)


So, to me it is very possible that he could not see from Snape POV, 
so to speak and did not figure out Snape's real feelings and that his 
trust may have been misplaced.

Besides, we have quite a few examples of Dumbledore trusting the 
wrong people to fulfill DADA position.


JMO of course,

Alla