What Dumbledore trusts Snape to do?

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 149687

Carol:
> DD actually says "I trust Severus Snape completely." But putting the
> modifier and the word it modifies together, we have "I *completely
> trust* Severus Snape."
> 
> His *trust* in Snape is *complete*. That is to say, it is total and
> absolute. Dumbledore is not trusting Snape to do any one particular
> thing. He is trusting him to do whatever must be done.  <snip>

> Carol, noting that the absence of qualifiers like "almost" or
> "virtually" means that the completeness of the trust cannot be
> doubted. Dumbledore may be wrong to trust Snape, but the trust itself
> is absolute.

Jen: Hehe, I just couldn't resist pulling this one out because it has 
some bearing on Dumbldore's communication style....

"I am going to tell you everything."

Dumbledore has a way of telling the truth and nothing but the truth, 
but perhaps not the *whole* truth of the matter. Like many, I think 
what he's hiding is the reason he trusts Snape, not that he has doubts 
about the trust. 

Jen, not directing this at Carol in particular, just ran across that 
DD phrase tonight reading OOTP to her son and remembered 
how 'everything' turned out not to mean the same as 'everything'.