Tactics & Prescience (was Why Bella didn't disapparate/ OOP Az. effects)

[Talisman]

No: HPFGUIDX 75663

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> > Annemehr's two Knuts:
> First, why didn't Bellatrix apparate away?  I think she knew full 
> well (and intended?) that Harry followed her out of the Death 
> Chamber.  *** "snip"  Furthermore, I think Dumbledore's anti-
apparation jinxes were applied to the DEs individually and so he'd 
missed Bellatrix and obviously didn't get Voldemort either.
>*** "snip" 
> Annemehr

Talisman, folding away her copy of the Quibbler, and tucking the 
Stubby Boardman clippings into her files, observes:

Yes, I think it's quit clear that Bellatrix was luring Harry to a 
tactically superior field of battle. 

But I wonder that you don't find it odd that Dumbledore "missed" 
Bellatrix with his "apparation jinx," as you call it.

Implausibly odd, in fact, that Dumbledore: 1) managed to subdue 
every DE but Bellatrix, when she was battling Sirius, 2) that he 
was "unable" to stop her, not just with the first deflected spell, 
but as she trotted up the rest of the stairs, and 3)that it took 
Dumbledore so long to show up in the Atrium, when he was obviously 
watching Bellatrix leave and Harry give chase.  

Then of course we have a totally different view of Dumbledore who 
quickly takes Bella out of the battle and then strolls around the 
Atrium managing Voldemort(intentionally using non-lethal spells) 
with effectatious ease.(OoP 813, et seq.)

Indeed,I suggest you consider that Dumbledore wanted Harry to follow 
Bella, and to encounter Voldemort in the Atrium.  I do believe he 
was well aware of what was going on, and had once again co-opted 
Voldemort's plan to work for his own ends.

For those of you on the TBAY beach shouting "IDIOT is dead," let me  
assure that I am not here to resurrect it, though if you scuttled it 
because of Dumbledore's speech about being an "old fool," I despair 
entirely.

I take the occasion to note that in such a "grownup" environment, 
with so many outraged posts about predjudice, ageism has always been 
in full flower.

I doubt not that our stiletto-wielding Author expects many 
cheerfully S.P.E.W.-buttoned readers to accept this rationale, 
because they themselves equate age with foolishness. 

Dumbledore is nobody's fool.  You cannot read his excuses and 
compare them to what you actually know from the texts without 
realizing that he is lying a great deal of the time.

No, Dumbledore knows--more than we do--what is going on and he is 
controlling the action to a great extent.

However, if you will allow me(in this evolving post-de-
constructionist milieu)to advert to the nomenclature of the old 
Structuralist, Northrup Frye, the Harry Potter series is 
not "undisplaced myth."   

That is to say, we are not dealing with the gods and goddesses that  
people pure myth, hence we should not expect truly omniscient 
beings. 

The world of wizardry places us in the literary Mode of Romance, 
where protagonists, though not numina, are extra-ordinary beings. 

Those readers who have seen some small lapse (always 
inconsequential) and have comforted themselves with the notion that 
Dumbledore is a dottering old Santa who can no longer chew what he 
has bitten off, are likely to be bitten in the behind.

For now let me just remind you that, in the June 2003 Albert Hall 
interview, JK calls Dumbledore "a very wise man" who has to 
both "step back" to allow Harry to learn some hard lessons, and, she 
agrees with Stephen Frye, "push the little birds from the nest."  

Therefore, the author comprehends Dumbledore to act both omissively 
and comissively--with intention--to prepare Harry for "what is to 
come."  She does not say, "well he's getting older you know, 
screwing up a bit . . ." 

Fair warning to the faint-hearted, as soon as the snares of this 
world give me time, I will launch the good ship, NO DIPP(Not 
Omniscient, Dumbledore IS Preternaturally Prescient), into TBAY, and 
defend her with good canon. 

Talisman, who wonders if Johnny Depp would lend her some "Capt. Jack 
Sparrow togs" for the trip.