[HPforGrownups] Re: Evil Snape

[Sherry Gomes]

No: HPFGUIDX 154247

Nikkalmati:
Example: his certain belief in his own POV leads him to misrepresent to the
Order what DD told him about why Snape left LV.  HBP 616 "Snape passed  
Voldemort the information that made Voldemort hunt down my mum and dad.
Then Snape 
told Dumbledore he had not realized what he was doing, he was  really sorry
he'd done it, sorry that they were dead." We know DD told Harry  Snape came
to him with some story long before the Potters were killed, so that  is a
distortion in Harry's thinking.  


Sherry now:

Is that actually deliberate misleading, or is it just the anguish of just
having seen Dumbledore die and not seeing or saying things clearly.  It's a
long time since I read HBP, but didn't he just find out this juicy bit of
info that night, before going off with Dumbledore?  I never considered it to
be deliberate, but more just the natural way things get tangled up in the
immediate aftermath of a sudden and shocking situation.  Harry had certainly
been through a hell of a lot that night!


Nikkalmati:
Example 2: he refuses to confide in  McGonnagal about where he and DD were
that night, apparently thinking he  knew best again. 
HBP 626.  I bet that keep it to myself attitude turns out  to be a mistake
in Book 7.
 


Sherry now:

Again, I do not consider that to be arrogance.  Dumbledore made him promise
not to tell anyone but Ron and Hermione, and he is not going to tell anyone.
I applaud that and would do the same thing.  I think he'll have to observe
the situation before he agrees to tell anyone else, and I doubt it will ever
be McGonagall.  And no, I don't think she's secretly evil, but neither do I
think Harry has built the kind of trust with her that he would need to break
that very special promise he made to Dumbledore.  I think that to Harry,
Dumbledore's death does not give him the freedom to break his word in this
matter.  I thought it was wonderful, when I first read that moment and felt
very proud of Harry.

Sherry