Duane: Harry was Right?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 189724

 
> Alla:
> I  think that when Harry has all the  information he is often quite  right about what is happening. 

Pippin:
LOL! It hardly takes brilliance to be right about what is happening when you have all the information. It is the assumptions Harry makes when he doesn't have all the information that we are talking about here. 

As for recognizing that Snape hates him,  where in canon is there any doubt about it? Even Hagrid can't make much of an argument otherwise. But the assumptions Harry makes based on that recognition are all wrong, because Harry didn't  understand for a long time is that hatred is a weak motive for murder. At least in canon, greed, fear and rage are way ahead of it. 

Alla: 

  And when was he wrong about Hagrid?

Pippin:
He was wrong in thinking that Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets the first time, an opinion he held between Valentine's Day and his talk with Aragog which took place two weeks after the Easter holidays -- quite a while. 

Pippin