Logical course of action for Dumbledore?

[aldrea279]

No: HPFGUIDX 41615

Vanessa:
>>Just curious as to what you all feel would be a logical course of 
action for 
Dumbledore at the end of GoF? My personal thoughts are that he 
obviously 
needs to form some alliances with the Giants, as is evidenced (as we 
all 
know, of course) by asking Hagrid at the end of GoF to go off with 
Olympe, 
i.e. "Madame Maxine to you," and talk to the Giants.>>

Yes, and I'm rather anxious to see how that turned out.  Were Hagrid 
and Olympe able to convince the Giants that Voldemort is *not* the 
one that's going to help them?  I think a strong possibility is that 
they did.  In fact, did Madame Maxime even *go* with Hagrid?  It was 
never definately decided that she was going with him, though I think 
she did.

Vanessa:
>>And I fully agree with 
him that the dementors need to be gotten rid of. I shudder to think 
what 
could happen if they remain at Azkaban!>>

Yes, but how could Dumbledore get them out?  It's pretty obvious, by 
the way Fudge acted at the end of GoF, that even suggesting such a 
thing is not on his To Do List.  So I don't see how Dumbledore can 
get the dementors removed.  Infact, in the next few(or even just the 
next) books, the Azkaban problem could be one that gets dealt with.

Vanessa:
>>Is he[Snape] going back to Voldemort, again as spy at "a great 
personal risk" or is 
he heading some place else?>>

I don't know about this.  I never have really liked this theory.   
Snape has been working as Dumbledore's right hand man for...well, we 
know for *sure* he's been doing so for 4 years, but he's more than 
likely been there longer than that.  How can he go back to 
Voldemort?  I mean, Voldemort isn't...well, he's not *totally* 
stupid.  And Voldemort atleast knows Dumbledore isn't, so I don't see 
how he can accept a DE that's been working so closely with 
Dumbledore, and infact still is, for all we know.

~Aldrea, who thinks you did fine on your first post, Vanessa.