[HPforGrownups] Re: Reason Dumbledore trusted Snape.

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 171682

Carol responds:
>I've said this before, but here I go again. Trust is not based on
>compulsion. 

Bart:
Tell that to Bill Gates. 

Carol:
>It's the belief that the other person will do the right
>thing of his own volition. 

Bart:
And compulsion is a great way to ensure that. 

Carol:
>(Probably, he doesn't trust Hagrid with secrets--that would be utterly
>foolish--unless he for some reason wants those secrets to "slip.")

Bart:
I wonder if Hagrid ever actually let a secret slip that he wasn't supposed to. 

Carol:
>Nor do I think that Dumbledore, who believes in Love as the most
>powerful form of magic and in the importance of choices, would bind
>*anyone* with an Unbreakable Vow, which not only involves compulsion
>but, AFAWK, the death of the vow breaker. 

Bart:
I don't think DD would trust an Unbreakable Vow. He makes it quite clear that, from his point of view, there are worse things than death. Which implies that, whatever reason DD has for trusting Snape is STRONGER than an Unbreakable Vow.

Bart