Proving loyalty (Re: Hearing from the Great Middle)

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No: HPFGUIDX 140193

> >>Jen:
> <snip>
> I really believe we will see an *unmanipulated fact* to prove why
> Dumbledore trusted Snape.
> <snip of great examples of forms of proof>
> But I do think while Snape's reason for changing sides earned him
> a second chance, they did not gain Dumbledore's complete trust
> until backed up with irrefutable proof.

Betsy Hp:
I think there will *need* to be irrefutable proof for fandom to be
satisfied. And I think JKR, clever as she's been in creating
ambiguous!Snape, realizes it. Harry will need it as well. And that
proof will be the final(?) step in his transition from boy to man.


Allie now:

Scenario:  Snape attacked by Dementors.  Snape casts his Patronus, 
and it is a.... Lily!!!  (We are told that it is *usually* but not 
always an animal, right?)  Harry realizes at once the reason why 
Dumbledore is sure that Snape is on their side.  I'm not on that 
particular SHIP, but it's fun to speculate.