Hermione and 'Evil is a strong word' (WAS Re: CHAPDISC: HBP30, The White Tomb)

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 165965

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Lynda Cordova" <moosiemlo at ...> 
wrote:
>
> a_svirn:
> 
> Every time Harry started on Snape, his doubtful loyalties and
> murky past what did she say to him? Come on, Harry, Dumbledore
> trusts him, and Dumbledore knows best. But now this argument is no
> longer valid, is it? Dumbledore has been proved wrong.
> 
> Lynda:
> 
> Has he been then? Irrevocably? There is more to the story, after 
all, that
> we readers have not yet knowledge of. Yes. It may be as you say. 
Snape is
> ESE and Hermione's statement will turn out to be just that, the 
statement of
> a schoolgirl who has misjudged one of her professors that she 
trusts only
> because her headmaster chose (wrongly) to trust him. Or there could 
be more
> to the story. I choose to keep an open mind until JKR reveals the 
truth.
> 

a_svirn:
That's not what I am saying. As readers, we can think that Dumbledore 
might have been right after all. It would certainly be anticlimactic, 
to say the least, if it turns out that Dumbledore was simply a vain 
old food too trusting for his (and everyone's) good. But Hermione is 
not *reading* the story, she is *living* in it. For her to rely on 
Dumbledore's judgement at this point would be unreasonable.