Another DISHWASHER thought

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 45313

  If this is a war of spies, and one in which Harry Potter is being 
groomed to play a major role (not meta-thinking as there is 
plenty of canon evidence that Dumbledore is preparing him) it 
seems very odd that Harry is being taught to *hate* spies: 
Snape, Myrtle, Pettigrew, Mrs. Norris.

 And Harry's own attempts at  spying are  unproductive (CoS) or 
misleading (the Snape/Quirrell and Quirrel/Voldemort 
conversations in PS/SS and spotting Crouch in GoF) or 
double-edged (he learns about the dragons by following Hagrid 
in GoF, but so does Mme  Maxime).

 In PoA,  spying is shown to be completely counterproductive, 
from Harry's point of view, since if Lupin had never gone out to 
the Shack, Snape wouldn't have followed him and Pettigrew 
wouldn't have escaped.

Dumbledore is not doing anything to counteract these 
impressions. Instead, Harry is learning that spying is done by 
horrible people, that it is very difficult to get good information
and of limited advantage even when the information is useful. 
Knowing that Voldemort was after them didn't save the Potters.

Also, I am unclear as to why Dumbledore should dread 
Voldemort in spirit form so much. Malevolent spirits are nothing 
unusual in the Potterverse. One wonders why the Bloody Baron 
or some other ghost has not made himself ruler of the magical 
world if live wizards are so ready to follow a disembodied leader 
as  Magic Dishwasher would have us believe.

Pippin