Snape's loyalties and DD mistakes WAS: Re: HBP: Why I am 98.6% certain that...

[Miles]

No: HPFGUIDX 146575

dumbledore11214 wrote:
> Now, don't get me wrong, 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
> will not come true :-)), but IMO IF we find out that DD was wrong,
> the books foreshadowed  the fact that Dumbledore can make emotional
> mistakes really well and those mistakes IMO are huge. ( him dealing
> with Harry  and Sirius in OOP, him not sharing information about Tom
> Riddle, etc.)

Miles:
If it turned out that Dumbledore was fooled by Snape, then I wouldn't call
this an emotional mistake. We don't know the reason why DD trusts Snape, but
we know that there *is* a reason. And I think it is quite possible that this
reason is beyond a "feeling" of DD, but is connected with facts. Otherwise
he simply could tell anybody.

> CH3ed:
> Strategically, tho, I think DD made the right choice in distancing
> himself from Harry and in not telling Harry much anything in OotP.

Miles:
To do so was right, I agree - Harry was in danger, because it was possible
that he could attack DD - which would be much more danger to him than to DD.
But the emotional mistake was not to inform Harry *somehow*. He knows Harry,
he knows that in desperate situations he tends to act impulsive and without
thinking about his own safety. If Dumbledore just dropped a friendly note to
Harry from time to time, it would have been enough to prevent the situation
in the MoM.
Frankly, when I finished OotP first, I was a bit angry about this, because I
had and still have a problem to see DDs stupidness concerning Harry's
feelings to be in character. Even if DDs emotional considerations are
redirected to reason, this mistake should not have happened.

Miles