Evil Hermione Was:Re: Evil Snape

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 154618

Alla:
> YES, I completely agree with you. Harry has EVERY reason to be 
> furious with Hermione here, because of the way she handled 
> situation, the way she PRESUMED she knows best, the way she did 
> not insisted on the smaller group of people.
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> BUT precisely because DA turned out to be good thing for him, I 
> want to backtrack a bit.
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> Pippin also argued ( as I understood) that Ron and Hermione let 
> Harry down just as badly as Snape did ( sorry if I misunderstood) 
> and this I don't buy at all.
> 
> Are you also arguing that Hermione handling DA the way she did 
> equals what Snape did to Harry?

SSSusan:
In a word, nope.  I don't think what Hermione did re: the DA equals 
what Snape has done to Harry. 

But.

I think Pippin's point was that sometimes you just trust people 
because... well... you DO.  If someone is your friend, and you value 
that friendship, then you trust him/her, even if s/he has let you 
down at times.  In response, then, I believe, you were making the 
point that the *degree* of letting down was different.  (Am I right?)

So I do think the ways in which Snape has let down or hindered or 
hurt Harry are different and worse than the ways in which Ron and 
Hermione have let him down.  But I don't know that the issue was 
ever really a comparison of the letdowns of Ron/Hermie to Harry and 
Snape to HARRY.  Rather, I think the comparison should be of the 
letdowns of Ron/Hermie to Harry and of Snape to DUMBLEDORE.  

I mean, wasn't Pippin saying that maybe DD trusts Snape just because 
he values his friendship, same as maybe Harry trusts R/H just
because he values their friendship, even though each of those people 
may have let down their *respective* friends?  So DD may trust Snape 
because of their friendship, even if Snape has let him down, just as 
Harry trusts Hermione because of their friendship, even though she 
has let him down.  (And I was agreeing that Hermione *has* let Harry 
down.)

Siriusly Snapey Susan, not sure she's made an ounce of sense here