Dumbledore lied to Harry... AGES ago

[Annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 175640

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "allies426" <AllieS426 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> PS page 300 canon:
> 
> <<DD:  And then your father did something Snape could never forgive.
> Harry: What?
> DD:  He saved his life.  <snip>  I do believe he worked so hard to 
> protect you this year because he felt that would make him and your 
> father even.  Then he could go back to hating your father's memory 
> in peace.>>
> 
> WHAT????  If you believe (and I do) that JKR had the whole thing 
> mapped out from the beginning, this makes no sense.  Dumbledore 
> clearly knew that Snape was protecting Harry out of love for Lily, 
> and the promise he made Dumbledore after she died.  We have seen 
> Dumbledore redirect Harry, and lie via omission, but I can't recall 
> another outright lie like that.  We have NO REASON to think that 
> Snape felt anything of the sort.
> 
> Allie (who still worships the old man, but finds this a little 
> disappointing)
>

Annemehr:
Way beyond the fact that he lied, he also killed any chance of Harry 
rethinking his ideas of Snape.  In asking why Snape had saved his 
life, Harry was, for the first and only time until he viewed Snape's 
memories in the Pensieve, open to a new understanding of him.

And what did DD do?  He closed that door right back up and padlocked 
it.  Don't worry, Harry, he's still the hateful man you thought he 
was, no need to be grateful or anything.  I mean, imagine the 
difference if he had actually said "He saved your life because he 
once was friends with your mother."  

Annemehr,
beginning to wonder if DD's motto was "Get thou behind me, Slytherin"