Dumbledore's style

[boblevin2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 40998

My sense is that Dumbledore understands magic on a completely 
different level than other wizards--probably every other wizard.  An 
analogy would be comparing the distance, so to speak, between how we 
view the world--what is possible, what tools do what--to how an 
average wizard sees things.  I think Dumbledore's magic is that much 
more profound than the others.  

My guess is that at some point he will make a little speech about the 
most powerful magic, the most impenetrable magic is the power that 
lies deep in the heart--even Muggle hearts.  Those who can access 
that power find that other powers follow--which is how wizards can be 
born to Muggle parents.  I suspect he realizes the limits of normal 
magic. Even Voldemort's Dark Magic is pretty straight-line stuff.  
Make a potion, use Wormtail's hand, make a new hand.  Control 
Quirrel's or Ginny's mind to a certain extent--all of these spells 
are more or less temporary and internally flawed.  They obviously can 
be defeated. Voldemort seems unaware that Harry's saving Wormtail's 
life turned Wormtail into a Trojan horse (Voldemort doesn't know the 
extent of this phenomenon), nor does Voldemort know that Harry's 
blood floating around in his new body will cause him all kinds of 
trouble.  But Dumbledore does know this.  

Obviously, Dumbledore knows the beginner stuff, but he seems to 
prefer to dance with this most powerful heart energy and give the 
heart energy of the evil folk a place to trap itself--like 
Quirrel/Voldemort, or make it confident enough to come out of hiding 
and then trap itself--like Lucious Malfoy and the diary, and finally 
Voldemort, that little fog of life absorbing in his new body, the 
blood that, if it doesn't annhilate him completely, will certainly 
cause him great discomfort.  Dumbledore seems to understand that evil 
energy is like a candle, ultimately it is finite.  He knows that if 
you snuff out a candle too soon the candle is still there waiting to 
be lit.  But when the candle burns itself out, no more candle.