Snape's loyalties and DD mistakes

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No: HPFGUIDX 146568

Alla wrote: <snip> 
> Hmmm. I am not sure about Dumbledore's mistakes not really being 
> mistakes. JKR pretty much said it didn't she in the July 2005 
> interview?


CH3ed:
Good point there! I do think DD made emotional errors in over-
estimating Harry's and Snape's ability to behave rationally in 
emotionally trying circumstances. A very humanly error of DD. 

Strategically, tho, I think DD made the right choice in distancing 
himself from Harry and in not telling Harry much anything in OotP. 
LV, tho he couldn't possess Harry without getting burnt, had access 
to Harry's head thru out the book without being noticed (just as 
Harry did to him...tho unintentionally). I think that caused LV to 
think that not only were Harry and DD very close, but DD didn't care 
much about Harry as well (unfortunately Harry also thougth the same 
thing)... Nothing like the relationship Harry had with Sirius, which 
LV then seized to his own use...and ended in Sirius' death. Anyway, 
I suspect that is what discouraged LV from using Harry to get to DD 
in that Book....until the battle by the MoM fountain. What the 
alternative would have been I really don't know, but I'd rather that 
Sirius snuff it in OotP rather than DD... if one of them had to go.

 
Alla wrote:
" It is certainly possible IMO that we will find out that Dumbledore 
was NOT fooled by Snape and Snape is loyal to him till the end( it 
is not a concession, but just me trying to keep all possibilities in 
mind in order not to be too dissapointed at the end, if what I think 
will happen and what I would like to happen doesn't come true :-)), 
<SNIP>
As to Snape hoodwinking greatest Legilimens, yes, I don't see it any 
either way. IMO he either fooled DD or Voldie or both."


CH3ed:
Speaking like a good lawyer!! :O) And you have a good odd of being 
right, too! I'm of the opinion that DD read Snape right, and LV 
isn't completely fooled by Snape. So I hope Snape doesn't start 
thinking that he had really fooled LV, or he'll be caught off-
guarded when LV finally decides that Snape's usefulness had ran its 
course and fulfills what he told his DEs in the graveyard scene he'd 
do to the DE who had left him forever. It would be quite terrible if 
Snape getting caught off-guard would also compromises Harry's 
mission in Book 7.

CH3ed won't judge an opera until the fat lady had sung. ;O)