My Problems with "The Spying Game" (long)

[greg_a126]

No: HPFGUIDX 39742

I have a ton of problems w/ this whole theory.
One of the biggest is I refuse to believe that even Professor 
Dumbledore would be so callous with someone's life that he go out of 
his way to ensure that Sirius remains publicly to be believed 
guilty.  Harry, Hermione, Buckbeak & Dumbledore aren't always going 
to be around with time-turners whenever they're needed.  What if a 
group of wizards go hiking up that mountain, run into Sirius's cave 
to escape the rain, & come across the convicted murderer asleep.  
Would anyone bother to call the Headmaster of the local school?  No.  
They'd just call the MoM, they'd call the Dementors out, & Sirius 
would lose his soul.  They'd probably "Oh by the way..." & Dumbledore 
would soon find out, but then it'd be too late.  If they are infact 
trying to arrange Voldemort's rebirth they'd need every powerful 
wizard (as by every indication Sirius seems to be) prepared to fight 
against him.  

Not only that, but there is more to fighting a war than just the 
ability to do so.  I think if Sirius were to die or get his soul 
sucked, especially if it had happened at the end of book 3 b/c H/Hr 
hadn't been able to save him, Harry would be crushed.  Especially so 
soon after finally finding a family.  Harry was upset as it was that 
he was unable to go live w/ Sirius b/c his name wasn't free, but to 
not be able to live w/ Sirius b/c he had no soul left would be 
something else entirely.  Even though he's four years older, I think 
the only difference that Harry would see in the Mirror of Erised is 
that he would now see Sirius in the mirror as well.  Sirius 
represents Harry's only oppertunity to have a father figure.  I think 
after all Harry has sacrificed for the good side that for Dumbledore 
to be responsible for Harry losing his last hope for a loving family 
just b/c he didn't want Harry living with Sirius during the summers 
is incredibly unlikely.  

Sirius, I'm quite sure, still feels a great amount of responsibility 
for the deaths of the last generation of the Potters.  He admits as 
much when Harry first confronts him in the S. Shack.  "You killed my 
parents,"..."I don't deny it."  p. 341-342, us paperback.  Dumbledore 
sits him down, says if you don't want to be responsible for the end 
of the Potter line, Harry has to stay w/ the Muggles over the 
summer.  Who knows?  W/ a freed Sirius, Dumbledore could show up on 
the Dursley's doorstep, wave his wand around a few times, make some 
sparks shoot out of his wand, & say that Harry's going to have a dog 
living with him until he graduates.  Harry & Sirius get to live 
together, they're both happy, Harry's still living w/ the Muggles, so 
he's still save & Dumbledore's happy, & Sirius being a fully 
qualified wizard can spend the summer teaching Harry more magic, so 
he's a more powerful wizard & everyone but Voldemort is happy.  

You are to have us believe that Dumbledore & Snape have engineered 
this whole thing to try & make sure that Voldemort returns.  At the 
end of GoF, Dumbodore says that he expected Fudges's attitude, & 
makes clear they need every wizard who's willing to help, yet they 
engineer the situation to make sure that a potentially very powerful 
ally cannot operate freely.  As effective as Sirius tracking down the 
old crowd as a dog may be, I'd imagine it work much better if he 
could use the wand that he picked up @ Ollivander's & apperate from 
one house to the next, & eveyone's been contacted in one night.  Now, 
he has to walk as a dog half-way across Great Britian, making sure no 
one sees him in his true form, or that no one finds him catching food.

Finally, why would Dumbledore & Snape choose now?  If Harry really is 
supposed to be the person who defeats Voldemort (it's not called 
Severus Snape & the Sorcerer's Stone) why would they give Voldemort 
his servant now, when Harry is only slightly more then halfway 
through his magical training?  How different would that resurrection 
scene have been if Harry was only a few months out of Hogwarts:

Harry is taken by Portkey to a graveyard.  His scar starts to hurt.  
He says to himself, "This is a graveyard, my scar hurts, Voldemort 
may be around, I don't want to be here anymore."  He takes out his 
wand & Apperates away.  End of scene.  

I know in several of her interviews, JKR has said that those seven 
years of magical training are all new witches & wizards get.  But 
really.  For someone trying to take over the world, do you ever stop 
learning new spells?  Or on the other hand, for someone whose job it 
is to defend the world (Dumbledore/Harry) do you ever stop learning 
how to defend your friends and family?  Voldemort was *alive* 
(meaning not a ghost) and learning magic for like forty years.  Or 
roughly tentimes the amount of time that Harry's spent learning the 
magical arts.  If it's going to come down to Harry dfeating 
Voldemort, why would they not give him every advantage they could 
muster, and for a fourteen year old, I think one of the biggest 
advantages would be time.

So in short, I agreed w/ a lot of the facts you used, but disagreed 
with the conclusion they led you to.

Greg