[HPforGrownups] Re: Why are wizards so incompetent? /Evil Overlords/ Some...

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 140597

In a message dated 9/20/2005 5:00:21 PM Central Standard Time, 
foxmoth at qnet.com writes:
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. 

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.

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.

Pippin
Oh Ok I see.  I think that the circumstances of the situation also need to be 
taken into consideration. Harry had just seen the man he (arguably) admires 
the most killed by the person that he hates the most (I think at this point he 
probably hates Snape more than LV).  I think that any one would be hard 
pressed to take a set back and rationally organise their thoughts and look for 
reason to disprove what they had just seen happen with their own eyes.  (As for the 
AK not leaving a mark . .well that trickle of blood could be seen as literary 
license by the authoress).

Now as book 7 progresses and if Harry is presented with clues and reasons for 
things not having happened as they seemed on that tower then I will agree 
that he is being an idiot.  But right now I think he was being human.

Melissa


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