Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2.100.225.114-20140126123425/@comment-82.12.156.248-20140126125928

Weiss is a logical thinker. Over the twelve hours she was likely analysing the situation constantly, likely trying to find a way to forgive her teammates and she found it in the fact that: Even if Blake was a Faunus, even she was a member of the White Fang... she'd done absolutely nothing to her or the rest of Team RWBY, or anyone else in Beacon for that matter. If Blake was a threat then, why was she just a normal, relatively shy 17 year old girl by all appearances?

Plus she was with Yang for the entirety of the search who seems to be of a reasoning spirit about it all, likely trying to convince Weiss the whole way that Blake wasn't as guilty as she looked.

I still don't think Weiss has fully forgiven her, like you said, even with those explanations, it still seems too sudden. I think its more likely that she knows, regardless of Blake's past, they are teammates at the end of the day. And for the next four years she would have to team with Blake, after all there was no way Ruby or Yang would let her, or forgive her for that matter, for reporting Blake to Ozpin or the authorities.

I'd expect Volume 2 to involve some minor details here and there of Weiss pushing Blake away from her, more so than she normally would. And possibly a major conflict between the two occuring if Weiss discovers Blake doing anything less than legal. Perhaps she finds out that Blake was responsible for the train robbery later on. She's forgiven her for the good of the team. I doubt she's forgot. And I doubt she will truly return to a level of friendship with Blake until after someone makes her see that she is subconsciously pushing the girl away.