Dumbledore and Scabbers

[innermurk]

No: HPFGUIDX 55975

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "maria_kirilenko" 
<maria_kirilenko at y...> wrote:
> Nah, a broken leg is nothing. At a school where they teach magic, 
> accidents are bound to happen. Of course, the most interesting 
thing 
> about the broken leg is the circumstances, but that's a whole 
another 
> story.
> 
> The basilisk is different, though. That can't be considered as a 
mere 
> accident, and is also something the parents should know about... 
it's 
> their kid, after all. But somehow, I doubt that they were ever told 
> about it. Once it became obvious she wasn't anywhere near death, 
> Dumbledore let out a great big sigh of joy at not having to contact 
> anyone, probably. 
> 
> He isn't a very *moral* person when it comes to little things like 
> that, is he?
> 
> Maria

Oh no!!!! I think that must've been movie contamination! If you'll 
remember correctly, BOTH Arthur and Molly Weasley were with 
Dumbledore, and McGonagall when Harry, Ron, Lockhart, Ginny and 
Fawkes came back from the Chamber of Secrets.
I'm sure that they didn't just decide to pop in to Hogwarts. I'm sure 
that they were there because Dumbledore or McGonagall contacted them 
and asked them to come. Molly was crying remember? Most obviously 
they were discussing the whole chamber and basilisk events that led 
Ginny to be taken away.
Then Harry told them ALL what had happened and it wasn't until they 
learned about everything that Dumbledore sent Ginny off to the 
hospital wing with her parents.
So, I'd say he *is* a very moral person is this kind of thing.

Innermurk