Dumbledore's mistakes

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 75156

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> 
wrote:
> Telling him would have, among other things, played right into 
> Voldemort's plans by making Harry curious about the prophecy (if 
> he was only told of its existence) and tempting him to go after 
> it, or by risking Voldemort extracting it from Harry's mind (if 
> he was told the content).

But if he had told Harry everything immediately then Harry woud have 
started occlumency and probably would have worked harder at it if he 
knew that Voldemort was going to use him as his spy and then 
Voldemort wouldn't have possibly extracted the information from 
Harry's head since he would never have noticed Harry in his head in 
the first place

> 
> Since when is that Dumbledore's responsibility?  Sirius is a big 
> boy, and should be able to look after himself.  

Dumbledore is the leader of the troops. I think one of his 
responsibilities is to maintain morales. Besides Sirius didn't 
exactly grow up since he has spent the last decade or so in jail or 
as a dog which hasn't exactly helped his mental state.