[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's plan was Doing it for Lily?

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 188925

> The trick, in canon, is to try to see the good in other people, even when 
> they can't see any good in you. And to be just as ready to assume the good 
> as you were to assume the bad.
> Harry never had proof of all the evil things he believed about Snape and 
> the Slytherins. So why should we insist upon proof before we stop 
> believing them?
>
> Pippin

Sorry for cutting out an entire setup for this wonderful argument, Pippin. 
But no proof? Hadn't everyone told Harry just how awful the Death Eaters 
were? Universally agreed on their opinion of the Death Eaters? Harry saw 
first hand with the Mark in the Sky at the World Cup how the Death Eaters 
paraded with reckless disregard for Muggles when they dangled the camp 
owner's family in the air, read in the newspaper of the deaths and 
disappearances of so many people. Snape himself wore the mark of the Death 
Eater- was that not proof that he had to have done some act to earn it? Keep 
in mind that even wearing a Dark Mark, with no further evidence needed, was 
enough to put a man in Azkaban in the justice system of the Wizards, so 
undoubted sure were they of the weight it carried. Hadn't Harry experienced 
first hand Voldemort's thoughts- this very master of Snape? Take then, that 
same weight of evidence and turn the situation around---had this much 
evidence been there to say that Snape was a GOOD man---sure, we'd all be 
believing it with nary a batting of an eye.

Shelley