Dumbledore lied to Harry... AGES ago.

[lupinlore]

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> > Eggplant:
> > If so then the books don't make much sense. Dumbledore told Snape
> > he didn't expect Harry to survive and for the life of me I can't
> > see why he would lie to Snape of all people about that.

I think that's the point.  The books DON'T make much sense at several
places.  As a lot of people have been exploring, anything having to
do with Dumbledore's plan and/or the Elder Wand gets rapidly lost in
a tangle of contradictions, plot holes, and disastrous inconsistencies.

Zara:
> That, anyway, is how I interpret their exchange at the end of that
> scene, in which Dumbledore asks Snape if he has come to care for
> Harry, Snape angrily deflects  the question (without answering,
> most importantly, without denying it!), and Dumbledore gets tears
> in his eyes. Why?

Well, I don't think the text really supports the implication that
Snape cares for Harry.  Snape has, certainly, absorbed some of DD's
values to the point of not wanting to kill without reason.  But when
DD makes his query, Snape immediately says "For HIM?" and produces
his patronus.  That seems to me that he is saying very clearly "No, I
don't care for the boy.  I still care for Lily and you promised me I
was keeping the wretched brat alive FOR Lily!"  Dumbledore then
says "After all this time?" and gets teared up, which seems to me
clearly to say that Dumbledore is crying NOT because he thinks Snape
cares for Harry -- since Snape has just clearly said he does no such
thing -- but because Snape still loves Lily enough after all this
time for her to be his patronus.


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