[HPforGrownups] Re: Pondering the details of Goblet (contents vary)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 23466

lamppost42 at hotmail.com wrote:

> > Yet Pomfrey is a highly respected member of Dumbledore's handpicked
> >staff. So why is she regarded as so much less trustworthy than some
> of >the others?
>
> I can just hear Mrs. Weasley and Madame Pomfrey tsking the dangerous
> tasks in unison. So far, their characters have been portrayed very
> similarly in how they react to finding the students in danger.
> However, I feel that including Mrs. Weasley in the conversation
> indicates that there is quite a bit more to her than the
> overprotective disciplinarian
> we've seen so far.

Upon reflection, I think that Dumbledore simply knows his people very
well. Madam Pomfrey strikes me as a very trustworthy person, but one who
has her own priorities (the health and well-being of her charges) above
all else. Even if you told her that there might be a very good reason
for doing something she disapproves of, she'll still disapprove. If
Dumbledore knows he can't convince her of something, and knows he's
going to do it anyway, why let her hear about it? Alternately, in a
world with things like Veritaserum and other secret-inducing niceties up
its sleeve, perhaps Dumbledore is operating on a need-to-know basis for
her own protection?

Rambling,
still sick,
REAL tired of it,
Amanda


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