Truth vs. what meets Harry's eye (Was: Is Harry an idiot because he thinks Snap

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> SSSusan:
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I think we *do* have 
> evidence in the book of several situations where what appeared to 
be 
> true turned out not to be, even if it made *sense* that the person
(s) 
> believed what he/they did.  Carol's examples of Hufflepuffs 
believing 
> Harry to be the Heir of Slytherin and the witnesses' belief that 
> Sirius had killed all those people are excellent ones.  In the 
tower 
> scene, we know what we witnessed, but did we witness enough?  Do we 
> *know* enough?  

Alla:

Well, actually, even though I think that Hufflepuffs believing Harry 
to be the Heir of Slytherin could be analogised to the situation, 
sort of, I don't think that witnesses' believing that Sirius killed  
the muggles cuts it. JMO, of course.

In the Sirius' example, we do not actually witness anything . We only 
heard hearsay, so the level of distance from that scene for the 
reader is much more than in the tower scene. JMO, of course.

Now, suppose, someone , be it a host, or anybody else TELLS Harry 
about what happened on the Tower, but Harry himself does not actually 
witness it. Everything else in my hypothetical is the same.  Then I 
would say that example about witnesses' believing in Sirius' guilt 
would be more relevant.


JMO,

Alla.