Is Harry an idiot because he thinks Snape is guilty? Was: Why wizards are so i

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> Pippin:
> 
> Understand, I'm not a Harry-basher. But I don't think he's using his
> best judgement. He's acting like every sixteen year old who thought 
he
> knew more than his old man. 

Alla:

I think that he is acting as any person who would just witnessed a 
killing in front of his eyes, but that is just me.


Pippin: 
> Harry knows from first year that you can get a completely wrong idea
> of a conversation by listening to just part of it, that Snape and
> Dumbledore could not communicate openly in front of four Death 
> Eaters, that Snape and Dumbledore are both experts at legilimency, 
> that Dumbledore's actions have never made sense to him until they 
> were explained, and that Dumbledore was withholding the 
> explanations. 
> 
> He wiped blood away from the body, after being told that an avada
> kedavra curse should leave no sign.


Alla:

Wait a second, Pippin. Are you saying that the most REASONABLE way to 
act for Harry would be  stop and trying to figure out why Snape 
killed Dumbledore?

I am not saying of course that  there are no possible different 
interpretations of what happened on the Tower, but are you saying 
that they should have more sense to Harry that what he just saw?

He has  the most important piece of evidence - Dumbledore is dead, 
Snape  threw Avada at him.

I guess my question would be  why  this makes Harry an idiot?

What is more reasonable than Seeing Dumbledore's body?

Now, I am not saying that Snape may not turn out to be innocent of 
this killing ( personally I do not believe in it, but of course it is 
a possibility), I just don't get why exactly after seeing Snape 
committing killing and  Dumbledore being dead, Harry should start 
wonder  whether Snape is innocent.

I mean, he would discover the truth, eventually of course, but I 
don't understand why this should be his first reaction and first 
priority?

Why should he wonder about overheard conversations when he saw  Snape 
threw Avada?

Why should he think about the fact that Avada leaves no signs ( and I 
don't think that it had been proven 100%, personally, I think we 
witnessed Avada only couple of times and do not know for sure that it 
always does not leave a sign), when he sees Dumbledore dead?



Pippin: 
> He hasn't stopped to wonder about any of these things. He's just
> taken it for granted that Snape murdered Dumbledore, based 
> mostly on the way Snape has treated him, which is no more 
> sensible than judging Sirius by the way he treated Kreacher.


Alla:

Erm... I disagree. Harry took it for granted  that Snape murdered 
Dumbledore, because he SAW Snape murdering Dumbledore.

To me, it is just simple as that. Could it be that events on  the 
Tower were mor complicated than what Harry saw?

Sure, of course. I just think that his reaction is very reasonable 
one  with the evidence he has.


JMO, 

Alla.