[HPforGrownups] Dumbledore's Motives?

[swimminwoman86 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 40863

In a message dated 7/6/2002 8:10:51 PM US Eastern Standard Time, 
scaliff42 at ev1.net writes:


> Snape at the very least knew.  He was suspicious of Quirrell from the 
> start, even since the first Quidditch match.  Surely he would have 
> mentioned Quirrell's alarming behavior to Dumbledore, whom Snape 
> respects.  I mean, he tried to kill a student!  Why didn't Dumbledore 
> do anything about it?
> 

I agree with you, Dante. I said the exact same thing not too long ago. If 
Dumbledore is the greatest wizard of all time then how come he seems to keep 
missing things that seem so obvious? And of course there is always that look 
of triumph in book 4 that has been discussed to death. As much as I would 
hate to admit it, it does seem that Dumbledore has missed a lot of things. 
Maybe, as Lucious Malfoy says, he is too old for the job of headmaster now. 
Don't take this the wrong way, because I love Dumbledore and hope that he is 
truly on the good side but things are a bit strange. But then again, 
Dumbledore has had so many chances to finish Harry off and it seems that 
Dumbledore is only trying to keep Harry safe. Anyway, I am rambling also and 
I think I will just leave this up to discussion and see what everyone else 
thinks!
~Cindy~


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