Riddle's popularity/Dumbledore and evil (was re: Dicu...

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 37682

About Head-Boys and Head-Girls... In Finland, students *elect* 2 
students to present them in the school-board. Just as an example, the 
student-representatives in my upper-level Elementary managed to get a 
ban against gum overruled. Just to say that a student-organisation 
can get rid of unliked rules. Though I wasn't a representative, I 
remember it being a 'we did it!' - a moment of true joy.

That's one benefit of organisation, and other one is to get practice 
about what *voting* actually means and to vote before being old 
egnouh to vote in state/communal elections.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "talondg" <trog at w...> wrote:
> An _informed_ ignorence. :)
> 
> There's ignorence-as-cluelessness, then there's
> ignorence-as-tacit-approval, and then there's
> ignorence-as-teaching-skill.
> 
> The latter two aren't really ignorence. You _know_ what's going on,
> but you pretend otherwise unless you're forced to step in.
> 
> The Marauder's activities are to my mind, Dumbldore letting them run
> wild a bit so they can learn some life skills - it's more supervised
> than they think. Same with Harry's contact with Sirius in GoF.
> 
> The rescue of BuckBeak in PoA is ignorence-as-approval.

And - the *obviously* pretended deafness about Harry's insult on Rita 
Skeeter goes to the category of ignorance-as-approval.
 
> No, I think Dumbledore knows exactly what is going on around him, 
bit
> only reveals his awareness if it suits a purpose or if he is forced 
to
> by circumstance.
 
Yes, I do believe he knows, by conclusions based on facts, 
experience, and his ability to tell when someone's lying to him.

--Finwitch