Contacting parents

[Andrea]

No: HPFGUIDX 55973

--- Maria wrote:
> But as for the Petrified students - Dumbledore and everyone else knew 
> that they were going to be alright, and that they were actually safer 
> than anyone else. So, uh, extrapolating from the fact that 
> Dumbledore, apparently, didn't tell the Weasleys about Pettigrew and 
> Sirius Black, I conclude that the parents were not contacted in CoS. 
> Feel free to disagree, though. <g>

*waves hand* I disagree. :)  I think there's a vast difference between
notifying parents of Petrified students and the whole Scabbers/Pettigrew
debate.  The former involves an official action as the Headmaster of the
school, the latter only a personal action based on his knowledge of
extra-curricular events, so to speak.  He has the DUTY as Headmaster to
notify parents under certain instances, and I think a child being
Petrified -- whether or not there's a cure available -- is definitely one
of them!  (Would Dumbledore just HOPE Colin's parents don't notice that
their child doesn't write them from *November* on, doesn't come home for
Christmas, etc?  Please.)  

Dumbledore CAN'T take official action on the Scabbers situation, because
the official position is that Peter Pettigrew is dead and Scabbers is a
rat.  So any action he'd take is a purely personal one in which he's free
to use his own judgment to conclude that the Weasleys are not in danger. 
I don't think there's really any comparison between the two decisions.


Andrea

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