Voldemort's Resurrection WAS The Spying Game and the Shrieking Shack

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 39763

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:
> Marina wrote:
> > Yeah, but where's the bad in that?  Let them stay at a standstill
> > until Harry is grown. There's no rush.  Plan B could just as
easily
> > have been carried out in twenty years.  The Elder Riddle's bones
> > aren't going anywhere, after all.  Instead, Harry gets forced into
> > battle while still a half-trained child.  And for what? 
Wormtail's
> > life-debt strikes me as a pretty dubious benefit when weighed
against
> > the risks.  James Potter had a life-debt from Snape, who's way
more
> > competent than Wormtail, and where did it get him?
> 
> It could, but in this case it was out of Dumbledore's control. He 
> would've waited as long as Voldemort had wanted, but it was
Voldemort 
> the one that planed the Portkey!cup, after all, and I think it 
> surprised Dumbledore as much as everyone else. As I've said three
times 
> previously today, if he had known, since he's not black, merely
grey, 
> he would have sent to help Harry something more than Cedric "Spare" 
> Diggory.
> 
> My/Pip's theory believes that Dumbledore has been controlling the
way 
> the things should be going, not the timetable they should follow. Of 
> course Dumbledore would have prefered waiting another 10 years
before 
> Harry had to join the fight, but Voldemort made his move much
sooner, 

But the reason Voldemort was able to make his move was because
Wormtail escaped and found him, and MAGIC DISHWASHER claims that
Dumbledore deliberately allowed this to happen.  In fact, the claim is
that the entire sequence of events in the Shrieking Shack and after
was carefully staged by Dumbledore and Snape for the express purpose
of allowing Wormtail to escape.  So Dumbledore carefully plans this
incredibly risky and complex charade, requiring a great deal of luck,
precision timing, and Oscar-caliber acting on Snape's part -- and then
he *completely fails to anticipate his own plan's biggest
consequence?*

This is my biggest problem with the DISHWASHER -- it attempts to
present Dumbledore as this brilliant strategist who's got a plan for
every contingency, but instead he comes out looking like someone who
outwitted himself, tried to be too clever for his own good and fell
flat on his face.  What's the result of all his scheming?  Sirius
loses his chance to clear his name, Bertha Jorkins and Cedric Diggory
are dead, and Voldemort has come back way too early.  If Dumbledore
had just left well enough alone in PoA, things couldn't have been any
worse and they could've been much better.


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Thanks!  It'll go perfectly with my Exploding SNAP badge and my pink
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bit of cross-country skiing once in a while.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com