Evil Snape

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 154351

Pippin:
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> As for not revealing his 'real' reason for trusting Snape--
> 
> What if there isn't a 'real' reason? After all, why does Harry trust
> Ron and Hermione?  or Dumbledore himself? It isn't because they've 
> never let him down, or because he's sure they never would. They
> have, and as long as they're alive they may again, because they're 
> human.

Alla:

Um, I am sure there can be found some incidents in canon where Ron 
and Hermione let Harry down, but I would argue that yes, on the big 
scale they never did.

Ron did not treat Harry like garbage from the first time they met, 
quite the contrary.

Hermione did not help to make Harry an orphan, etc, etc.

They are human, of course, but I would argue that they stood by Harry 
always in the grand scheme of things.

I would leave out the question of why Harry trusts DD because that is 
sometimes a puzzle for me. :)


Pippin: 
> It isn't  because they've performed some spectacular act of 
atonement, 

Alla:

Do they HAVE something to atone for? Ron and Hermione, I mean. The 
only time Ron  IMO was not right to leave Harry, he wanted to 
apologise. But that is surely not comparable to what Snape is guilty 
of , no?

> Purely and simply, Harry trusts them because he values their 
> friendship. In the end that is the only reason to trust anybody.

Alla:

It IS, if those people did not do really bad things towards someone 
who supposed to trust them and Snape did IMO.


Pippin:
> The mere fact that Harry is asking for proof shows that he doesn't 
> understand why anybody would value Snape's friendship, so
> it would be useless to explain it to him. Now maybe there was
> some incident, like facing a troll together, that cemented 
Dumbledore's
> understanding of what a good friend Snape could be. But if 
> Harry were determined to distrust Snape, what difference would
> knowing about that make? He already knows that Snape has saved
> both Dumbledore and himself at least once and he's still not
> convinced.  

Alla:

The difference it makes because it is maybe enough for DD, but it is 
not enough for Harry, who now knows that he has to in part thank 
Snape for growing up without his parents IMO, that Snape barked at 
him the moment he saw him.

As to what difference it would make? It would have shown Harry that 
Snape maybe a bastard, but a bastard who is on our side.

Alla, who thinks that Dumbledore better have a REALLY good reason to 
trust Snape.