TBAY: Hurricanes, Cannon and Sinks

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 45570

"Oh dear!" Pippin gamely repairs her cannon, which seems to 
have backfired. She looks a little scorched. "I didn't mean--well, 
of course I can't knock down the Safe House. It's a fine piece of 
architecture. I guess I got carried away. You know how it is with 
land use issues, people get a little worked-up,  especially over a 
lovely Bayside property like this. I don't see much canon support 
for that offensive ops section over there,  but.." Pippin glances 
behind her at the dark clouds gathering over the bay. The 
hurricane watch flags are stiff in the wind. "I have a feeling 
Hurricane Jo is going blow it down without any help from me."

"Anyway, I'm sorry I upset you. And um--" Pippin blushes under 
her powder burns and digs her toe into the sand of the beach, "I 
found a couple of extra cannon for the Safe House."

PS/SS 
Voldemort goes undercover at the Hogshead and learns of 
Fluffy's weakness from Hagrid.

Harry, Draco, Hagrid and Hermione enter the Forbidden Forest 
to find out what is killing unicorns.

Pipsqueak slaps her forehead. "How did I forget that? Although I 
must say I'm not sure about the second one. We don't know if 
Dumbledore ordered that. "

Pippin shrugs. "I think he must've done.  But I admit there's lots 
of things we don't know about Dumbledore. You've done a very 
splendid LOONworthy job of cataloguing all the instances of 
Dumbledore's and Voldemort's intelligence gathering. But as I 
was just saying, there's no canon that Dumbledore ever 
launched a secret plot against so much as a grindylow. Secret 
plot to store the Stone at Hogwarts?  As you say, Dumbledore 
could hardly have chosen a more conspicuous way of retrieving 
it. Secret plot to send Pettigrew back to Voldemort? You can say 
it could have happened. That's the trouble with conspiracy 
theories: lack of evidence just means the conspiracy was 
efficient. <g>

"KITCHEN SINK doesn't say that Dumbledore never used spies. 
It only proposes that  Dumbledore is consistent and conducts 
his secret activities, whatever they are, according to the same 
philosophy that he teaches: choosing principle over pragmatism, 
and being willing to take great risks to protect innocent lives. 

"We know how far Dumbledore will go to protect the innocent. 
Twice now  he's deliberately sent Harry  into jeopardy. Both times 
it was for the sake of an innocent life. Once for the unicorns, and 
once for Buckbeak and Sirius. And Buckbeak has *no* practical 
value to Dumbledore's plans, after all Sirius could have escaped 
just as easily on a broom. Yet Harry  and Hermione are sent 
back an extra two hours to rescue a mere beast, tripling the risk 
that they'll be spotted.

" We don't know what Dumbledore's thinking. But we know what 
he's teaching: Harry's being taught that other lives are worth as 
much as his own. Is it consistent for Dumbledore to sacrifice an  
innocent life to get enough power to kill Voldemort? Would Amos 
Diggory understand?"

Pipsqueak opens her mouth, but Melody answers: "..it is my turn 
guys; Dumbledore did NOT see the TriWiz Cup Portkeytwist!!  In 
Dumbledore's perception, Cedric was not in more any danger
than any of the other students whose name is not Harry."

"Right." says Pippin grinning sarcastically, "And Dumbledore is 
only concerned about Harry. It never occurs to him that 
re-embodied Voldemort would be dangerous to anyone else.

" Look, if I purposely arranged for someone to aid and abet a 
serial killer, I wouldn't be expecting the relatives of  the next
victim to forgive me just because it was all part of my secret 
plan.

"Hope that cleans up the mess. Now, I've got to wash these 
scorch marks  off my face. As soon as I've fixed the sink,  I'll be 
back to help with the sandbagging."

Pippin pulls out a shiny new
D.R.A.I.N.S.N.A.K.E.
Dumbledore Rejects Abetting Iniquity, Surely Never Aided Killer's 
Escapades

Pippin