Dumbledore and the slaughtered pig

[eggplant107]

No: HPFGUIDX 175107

"va32h" Wrote:

> I can think of a very good reason for
> Dumbledore to lie to Snape. Dumbledore
> knows that Harry loathes Snape - why on
> earth would Harry just believe Snape if
> Snape merely told Harry what Dumbledore
> said? [
] Snape is going to have to 
> provide some kind of proof. 

To quote Niels Bohr "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough
to be true". If what you say is correct and "Showing Harry a memory
seems the best way to prove that what Snape is saying is true" then
why on Earth show him a memory of Snape's, a memory of Dumbledore
flapping him gums? Why didn't Dumbledore give Snape a bottle
containing a memory of his own and tell him to give it to Harry when
the time was right?

And if Dumbledore had the slightest hint that Harry would some day see
that little conversation with Snape I am quite certain  he would have
picked his words more carefully and not sneered at Snape when he
expressed concern about leading Harry to slaughter like a pig. Harry
agreed to die in spite of those cold remarks not because of them.

dumbledore11214 Wrote:

> Are you discounting Dumbledore's gleam in GoF? 

No I am not, but I think you are discounting the fact that the gleam
of triumph only lasted a fraction of a second followed by renewed
gloom. For the first time Dumbledore figured out a way to kill
Dumbledore hence the triumph, but a fraction of a second later he
realized it would involve Harry's death hence the gloom. 

  Eggplant Gellert Grindelwald