Disappointment Was: Deaths in DH WAS: Re: Dumbledore (but more Snape)

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 177480

Carol earlier:
> > It's enough (for me) that he told Ron and Hermione about Snape's
memories <snipped in mid-sentence>
> 
Lealess:
> Did he?  When?  In the big dueling scene?

Carol responds:

It's easy to miss the moment if you read the book only once, but, no,
I'm not referring to the big dueling scene (in which the public
vindication that I mentioned separately is prominent). I'm referring
to this passage, which occurs after the Battle of Hogwarts:

"But first he owed an explanation to Ron and Hermione, who had stuck
with him for so long, and who deserved the truth. Painstakingly he
recounted what he had seen in the Pensieve and what had happened in
the forest, and they had not even begun to express all their shock and
amazement when at last they arrived at the place to which they had
been walking. . . ." (DH Am. ed. 746; if you have the Bloomsbury
edition, it's near the end of "the Flaw in the Plan," midway through
the second paragraph after Peeves's little "victory song").

So, yes. Harry "painstakingly" tells Ron and Hermione about Snape's
memories and they react with "shock and amazement." JKR doesn't retell
the story, which would be redundant and anticlimactic, but we do know
that Harry tells them "the truth" about Snape (and his walk to what he
thought would be his death, accompanied by loved ones who, perhaps
significantly, do not include Dumbledore).

Carol, noting the double association, here and at the beginning of
"The Forest Again," of the phrase "the truth" with Snape's Pensieve
memories