Harry - Forgiving Snape and Killing Dumbledore

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 162968

---  "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at ...> wrote:
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> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > However, that said, as I read the "Who Killed 
> > Dumbledore" thread <snip> 
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> 
> That sounds juicy, could I trouble someone for the link? 
> Pleeeease 0:)
> 
> Valky
>

bboyminn:

Sorry, it was a current discussion in this group at the
time I posted, but the posts come pretty fast and it's
been moved back a page or two.

I believe it starts here -

Re: Who killed Dumbledore?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/145003

While the discussion was interesting, it was more reading
the Title after having read the thread we are currently in
that caused the idea to pop into my mind. I saw the 
question "Who killed Dumbledore?" and it occurred to me
that maybe nobody killed Dumbledore. 

Certainly several people are responsible, in my theory,
for contributing to the circumstances that lead to 
Dumbledore's death, including Dumbledore himself, but 
none of them is actually responsible for killing him. 
He just died.

What I'm looking for is an in-story means that would
allow Snape to somehow bring Harry into his confidence.
I believe Snape's story has been too strongly set up,
and now after Dumbledore's death too tightly tied to
Harry's for Snape to simply fade away. Snape is important,
he will certainly, in my view, play a substantial role
in helping Harry, but how can that transition come 
about? How can we make Harry who hates Snape and saw 
what he saw ever trust Snape again? Harry doesn't have to
love him, he doesn't have to like him, he doesn't have to
forgive him, but somehow he will have to bring himself to
trust Snape to some functional degree, and I am speculating
on how that can possibly happen.

I find this one of the most intriguing sub-plots in the 
books right now because I know it will have to happen
but can't imagine how.

Steve/bboyminn