Sunday, May 25, 2014

In "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows," when Harry gets Snapes memories, doesn't he realize that Snape isn't bad but the total opposite?

When Harry is inside the Pensieve he views a meeting between Snape and Dumbledore which leads him to believe not that Snape is on the side of good, but that Dumbledore has been using him all these years.  He learns that he is to die and that he will not survive the meeting between he and Voldemort. in the chapter entitled "The Forest Again," Rowling writes:

"Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.  His job was to walk calmly into Death's welcoming arms."

"Dumbledore's betrayal was almost nothing.  Of course there had been a bigger play' Harry had simply been too fooling to see it."

Harry won't learn the truth of the whole situation until chapter 35 when he meets Dunbledore at "King's Cross.

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