Trust in Dumbledore WAS: Re: The Statute of Secrecy

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 158969

> > Alla:
<SNIP>
> > I know we discussed this one over and over, but I am drawing a
> > blank, what were the suggestions about the *additional 
protection**
> > Dumbledore is talking about?
> 
> Magpie:
> Does he mean the Order posted around the halls? They definitely 
tell Harry 
> that they were on guard duty that night in the school.  He may 
have meant 
> them (though Snape interestingly isn't among the ones on duty, it 
seems).

Alla:

Oh, thanks ( and to a_svirn as well), so there is nothing extra I 
was unaware of, meaning some kind of extra spell, etc. Good to know 
I am not forgetting something obvious, that it was just Order 
staying Guard.

 
> > Alla:
> 
> > Now, I am of course not saying that trust in Dumbledore words is
> > always wrong, but yeah, we do disagree about whether his trust in
> > Snape was wrong or not :)
> 
> Magpie:
> Heh--and I could very well be wrong about my thinking they're 
right on that 
> one!  But regardless, since nobody has any idea *why* they trust 
Snape 
> except that Dumbledore did, they all look really stupid once 
Dumbledore is 
> dead even if Snape was DDM.  They are practically paralyzed, and 
given what 
> they say trust in Snape sounds absurd--well, of course we all 
wondered since 
> Snape was a DE, but we figured Dumbledore had his reasons... <SNIP>


Alla:

Yeah, hehe, I am soo looking forward to chanting loudly  after book 
7 - I was wrong about Snape, soooo wrong.

In any event, yes, they do look absolutely stupid, I agree, but I 
was actually really dissapointed in Mcgonagall.

I love her, I absolutely love her as a character, and especially 
after her arguing with DD in book 1 over leaving Harry at Dursleys, 
I so did  not expect that the only reason she trusted Snape was the 
same as everybody else - that DD had his reasons.

I mean for some reason I thought that Minerva had her own reasons to 
trust Snape, sigh.

I think actually that I loved Slughorn's reaction the most ( I 
thought I knew him - very lovely, not I thought DD had his reasons 
and then Ooops).

JMO,

Alla