What Dumbledore trusts Snape to do?

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No: HPFGUIDX 149689

> > 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. 


Alla:

Yes, indeed, Jen. Thank you for bringing this up. Dumbledore can be 
pretty evasive, didn't he?

I think this was VERY telling how he escaped the accusations of 
being a liar when Harry confronted him about "you said you will tell 
me everything" ( paraphrase)

DD says that now we are going into realm of speculations, while does 
anybody doubt that what he said about Tom and Horcruxes will be 
completely true? Not me in any event.

Do I think that DD saying I trust Snape completely can turn into 
something else, not quite as complete as we think? YES, absolutely 
and your example is one of the very best examples by analogy IMO as 
to how it can turn out. 

Thank you, Jen. I realise that you don't share the point about DD 
trust being incomplete, but thank you for illustrating DD 
evasiveness.

Alla, who believes that DD does not lie, but VERY often evades the 
complete story.