[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Voldemort doesn't challenge Dumbledore?

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 29344



"Cindy C." wrote:

> Milz wrote:
>
> > Another thing I've been pondering is this. Does Hogwarts Castle
> > (meaning the building itself) have it's own power or does it act as
> a
> > magical reservior? If it's a magic reservior then Voldemort would
> > have to become very strong to defeat Dumbledore (a great wizard
> > himself) on Hogwarts grounds.
> >
>
>
> Hmmm.  Another interesting theory, Milz (you're really on a roll!).
>
> If Dumbledore is at his peak strength at Hogwarts, that would explain
> why Dumbledore wasn't interested in being Minister of Magic.

Maybe, but that ascribes a sort of cold ambitiousness to Dumbledore that
I don't think is quite in character.  I think the fact that Dumbledore
isn't interested in being the Minister of Magic has a lot more to do
with what he thinks is really important:  educating young people,
molding young minds.  I am very taken with Alan Jacobs' article (which
I've mentioned ad infinitum, forgive me if you're sick of hearing about
it), which discusses how Dumbledore's life work is teaching young people
how to use power in a moral fashion.

Someone who makes teaching young people how to use power in a moral
fashion probably isn't himself intent on the accumulation of power for
its own sake.

Peg


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