Second hand trust in Snape WAS: Would Harry forgiving Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 164205

> Pippin:
> Lupin  "But I do not forget that during the year I taught at 
Hogwarts,
> Severus made the Wolfsbane Potion for me every month, made it
> perfectly, so that I did not have to suffer as I usually do at full
> moon...He kept me healthy. I must be grateful."
> 
> I can hardly imagine that Lupin would have chosen to drink the 
> potion, and thought he should be grateful for it,  if he thought 
> the only thing keeping Snape from poisoning him was fear of 
> Dumbledore. LOL!


Alla:

Why so? I absolutely can imagine that possibility , only I would 
formulate it that the only reason Snape would agree to do that for 
Lupin would be per DD insistence.


 
> > 
> > Alla:
> > 
> > LOLOLOL. Harry's trust in Snape should not be second hand? That 
is 
> > after he learns of Snape involvement in Prophecy and sees Snape 
> > delivering AK at Dumbledore?
> > 
> > I agree, Harry's trust in Snape should not second hand, after 
the 
> > end of HBP it should be non - existant <g>
> 
> Pippin:
> Of course I am talking about before the tower.
> 
> And yet...you wonder  that Dumbledore should not have
> given Sirius the benefit of the doubt,  and come to his defense 
> even when there was ample evidence that Sirius had betrayed the 
> Potters and the testimony of many witnesses that he had murdered 
> not one but thirteen people? 
> 
> Yes, Harry has been hoodwinked by Snape, the question is, were
> he and the rest of the order hoodwinked by DE!Snape  for six 
> years, or was it just once, by DDM!Snape, on the tower. 
> Which is more plausible?


Alla:

Do I even have to answer the **crucial** difference that I see 
between 
Dumbledore and Sirius' situation and Harry and Snape, because that 
is too easy? :)

Okay, I will. If we will learn that Dumbledore seen with his eyes, 
personally how Sirius killed the muggles and betrayed the Potters, I 
would certainly ease up on him, I promise.

And conversely, if Harry was not personally present at the Tower, 
and somebody else would have told him that Snape killed Dumbledore, 
I would have been a bit harder on him to double check and 
investigate for himself.

And which is more plausible? You know what I think :)


JMO,

Alla