part 3 The chapter does not say how much time elapsed, but it appears to have been fairly significant. And it does not appear that she used any of that time to think, however, given that her sole complaint about the mission was that it was necessary to use a curse on Trelawney to effectuate HER plan, which of course she refused to take responsibility for.
The curse on Trelawney was an Unforgiveable. They are called that for a reason. I let her react in a way I thought all Gryffindors - or everyone - should react to the use of an Unforgiveable. Mind, in DH the Gryffindors throw them around as if they meant nothing, but this is not DH. Hermione is shocked that he would use such a strong spell. Her own actions were questionable, but not comparable either. It doesn't speak highly of the wizarding world and St. Mungos that they can't revert a hex issued by a 16-year-old girl. I chose to think that it wears out over time. Since it was done out of spite by JKR because she hates traitors, we shouldn't really look for logic there. But the fact remains that pimples aren't half as bad as forcefully manipulating someone's mind and forcing them into actions they have no control over. Which is what Imperio does.
"She had also, unknowingly at the time, convinced him of her admiration for him. That had gained her his trust, and maybe Sabrina's stone had helped her with that, too."
Too bad she refuses to trust him, isn't it? ;-)
She was shocked by his killing of Dumbledore. She is shocked by his using such a strong spell on Trelawney. This doesn't mean that she doesn't still trust him, but she feels free now to question. Which means thinking. Not about her own flaws - which makes her, hopefully, human. Only the most modest and humble among us point out their own flaws when they could point to others first. ;)
Besides. If the Gryffindors useage Unforgiveables in DH is bad, why isn't Severus' use of an Unforgiveable here just as bad?
At this stage, we have had Granger acting irresponsibly and making it clear that she does not trust Snape, and in addition, that she feels no sense of responsibility for the difficulties she has created and enemies she has made.
Wow. If you read it that way, I clearly wrote my chapter poorly, because I see nothing of the kind. I didn't mention her responsibilities for her actions anywhere, all I showed was shock about an Unforgiveable. You are reading things into this which aren't there.
And Snape's reaction to all this has been to snap at her and, when she snaps back, to pull back completely and do nothing more than smirk at her, expressly joke about her statement that she is hiding things from him, and continue to take her on essential missions.
Yes, and why shouldn't he? He understands very well why she did what she did, and he knows about how rash and foolish young people can act - from own experience. He points her in certain directions, and he is hopefully rather clear about it, otherwise I did something wrong. But he won't endlessly chastise her for these things. He won't have himself or the Underground chastised either, but apart from that, stopping the interaction because of disagreements would be silly and unproductive.
Where is she hiding things from him, other than the Horcrux secret which isn't really hers to tell? Everyone is hiding things from everybody. The basic structure of the Underground's protection is just that. My Dumbledore is benevolent in this story, he wanted to protect people by not telling everything. I really did a poor job explaining the Underground, I think.
I just am finding it hard to believe that Snape would trust this Granger so completely because she's competent, appears to admire him (although her actions say otherwise), and is obviously thinking about sex. Yes, he's a man and we all know how susceptible they can be to that. ;-)